Euxine Sea

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

The Euxine Sea, Pontus Euxinus, Axenos, now by the Turks called Cara Denguis, i. e. the Furious Sea, and by others the Black Sea; is encompassed round by Anatolia, Mingrelia, Circassia, the Crim Tartary, and Podolia; with no other out-let than the Bosphorus Thracius, accounting the Palus Moeotis as a Bay or branch of it: so that it seems more properly a Lake. Yet these great Rivers, the Danube, Nieper, Niester, Phasis, Corax, Sangarius, and many others discharge their floods into it. It is in length from East to West about one hundred eighty eight Leagues: In breadth, at the Western End, from the Bosphorus Thracius to the Nieper, three Degrees: at the Eastern, the half thereof. And is dangerous to navigate: Not so green, nor clear, nor brackish as the Ocean, by reason of the Influx of those Rivers. And now wholly under the Dominion of the Grand Seignior, without whose leave no Vessel passes upon it.

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Pontus (Euxinus) called by the Italians, Mare Maggiore, by the Greeks, Mauro Thalasson, by the Turks, Caradenisi, and by the Russians and Muscovites, Zorne-more; has Colchis to the East, Moldavia and Thracia to the West, Asia minor to the South, and Sarmatia of Europe and Asia to the North. Propontis, or the Sea of Marmora, is joined to it by the Thracian Bosphorus on the South-part. The Sea of Zabbachy, or the Palus Moeotis is also united to it by the Cimmerian Bosphorus, on the North-side. The Danube dischargeth it self into the Black Sea. Pliny lib. 4. Strabo lib. 12. Sanson Geogr.