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	Abydos, Egypt - LoveToKnow 1911
		Thence the Greeks named it Abydos, like the city on the Hellespont; the modern Arabic name is Arabet el Madfuneh.
		The worship here was of the jackal god Upuaut (Ophois, Wepwoi), who "opened the way" to the realm of the dead, increasing from the Ist dynasty to the time of the XIIth dynasty and then disappearing after the XVIIIth.
		The long list of the kings of the principal dynasties carved on a wall is known as the "Table of Abydos." There were also seven chapels for the worship of the king and principal gods.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Abydos,_Egypt (1445 words)

	Abydos, Egypt - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abydos, one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, stood about 11 km (6 miles) west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10' N. The Egyptian name was Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs shown to the right), "the hill of the symbol or reliquary," in which the sacred head of Osiris was preserved.
		Thence the Greeks named it Abydos, like the city on the Hellespont; the modern Arabic name is Arabet el Madfuneh.
		The worship here was of the jackal god Upuaut (Ophols, Wepwoi), who "opened the way" to the realm of the dead, increasing from the first dynasty to the time of the 12th dynasty and then disappearing after the 18th.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Abydos,_Egypt (1570 words)

	Abydos, Hellespont - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad.
		Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon (200 BC), and is famed in story for the loves of Hero and Leander.
		The town remained till late Byzantine times the toll station of the Hellespont, its importance being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the "Old Castles" by Sultan Mahommed II (c.
	abydoshellespont1.quickseek.com (128 words)

	Abydos, Hellespont
		Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point[?] on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad.
		Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon (200 B.C.), and is famed in story for the loves of Hero and Leander.
		The town remained till late Byzantine times the toll station of the Hellespont, its importance being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the "Old Castles" by Sultan Mahommed II (c.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Abydos,_Hellespont.html (110 words)

	All About Abydos
		Abydos is one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, about 11 km (6 miles) west of the Nile.
		The worship of Osiris at Abydos in his various forms begins in the 12th dynasty and becomes more important in later times, so that at last the whole place was considered as sacred to him.
		Visitors to Abydos should note that the reliefs on the outer portions of the temple were completed during the reign of Ramses II, and are of a much lower quality than those further inside the complex.
	www.all-about-egypt.com /abydos.html (1825 words)

	Abydos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abydos, Egypt, one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt
		Abydos, Hellespont (also "Ábydos"), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor
		Abydos (thema), a historical province of the Byzantine Empire
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abydos (161 words)

	Dardanelles, Canakkale-Bogazi
		The Dardanelles, (the Hellespont of antiquity), which take their name from the ancient Greek city of Dardanos, are the straits between the Gelibolu (Gallipoli) peninsula on the European side and the mainland of Asia Minor.
		The excavations at Troy have shown that the Hellespont area (the "sea-coast of Helle", mythical daughter of Athamas, who fell into the sea here when fleeing from her stepmother) was already settled by man about 3000 B.C. In the 13th century the territory was conquered by Achaeans from Greece.
		Abydos and Sestos, on opposite sides of the strait, are associated with the story of Hero and Leander, which was recounted by the Greek poet Musaeus (Mousaios; end of sixth century A.D.?).
	www.planetware.com /canakkale/canakkale-bogazi-dardanelles-tr-cn-cnb.htm (718 words)

	Hellespont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		482 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia and son of Darius, had two bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army, ostensibly made of 5 million men (most historians put the actual number of this army at closer to 250,000 men), could cross from Persia into Greece.
		In addition to punishing the Hellespont, Xerxes had the heads of those responsible for building the bridges cut off.
		The Hellespont was also the body of water which Leander would cross in order to tryst with his beloved, the priestess Hero.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hellespont (240 words)

	Abydos
		Abydos was first mentioned in the catague of Trojan allies (Iliad ii.
		Abydos, a member of the Delian Confederacy, passed to the Achaemenids, then to Alexander the Great.
		It is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC (Polybius 16.29-34), and is famed in myth for the lovers Hero and Leander.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Abydos.html (299 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abydos, Hellespont
		Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the Hellespont.
		Abydos was first mentioned in the catague of Trojan allies (Iliad ii.836).
		Abydos, a member of the Delian League, passed to the Achaemenids.King Agesilaus of Sparta crossed while returning to Greece in while Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the straight and claimed Asia as his own.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abydos,_Hellespont (289 words)

	Sestos and Abydos
		At the narrowest point of the Hellespont, Leander lived on the European side (Sestos) and had to swim to his lover each night, on the Asiatic side at Abydos.
		Abydos is located close to Nara Point and is about 2 km away from Çanakkale and more than 30 km away from Cape Sigeum.
		The probability is that the structure at Abydos on the southern shore, being more closely associated with the focus of activity in Troy, was constructed first.
	www.btinternet.com /~k.trethewey/AncientLights/sestos_and_abydos.htm (730 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		It was from Abydos that Xerxes crossed the strait to invade Greece in 480 BC.
		The first tablet has the names of the kings of the 12th and 18th Dynasties and it is now in the British museum.
		This pottery class took its name from Abydos, the first site at which it was found, in Upper Egypt.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=Abydos (325 words)

	Abydos (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		A Greek city on the Asian side of the Hellespont; the city of Sestos lies across the Hellespont on the European side of the narrow channel.
		There is a point of land jutting into the Hellespont from the European side of the waterway and it was at this spot, in 480 BCE, that the Persian king, Xerxes, built a pontoon bridge by lashing ships together and crossing the Hellespont from Abydos to Sestos.
		Before he arrived at Abydos, Xerxes instructed the townspeople to construct a platform of stones on a hill so that he could stand atop it and survey the massive army and navy he had assembled for the invasion of Greece.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Abydos_1.html (417 words)

	Rice's Dissertation Chapter 6
		The Rhodians were quick to inform a Roman delegation visiting their island of the fate of Abydos even as the Senate was preparing its last round of ultimatums to Philip before the final declaration of war.
		The idea that Abydos fell because of that supposed Rhodian-Pergamene antipathy likewise cannot be sustained, and if Attalus had placed himself in position to exert naval power in the waters off Greece, Eumenes, as noted, found nothing but Andros and Aegina left of his predecessor's wartime acquisitions after Flamininus's proclamation at the Isthmus.
		To give Livius his due as regards the Hellespont, Polyxenidas himself withdrew from the area of the strait as soon as he learned that the Roman fleet was to the south of him.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/chptr6.html (20711 words)

	Sestos - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Situated on the Hellespont opposite Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of Hero and Leander.
		Xerxes' army crossed at this point on a bridge in 480 BC, and most of Alexander the Great's forces went the other way here by boat in 334 BC.
		In 1810 Lord Byron swam from Sestos to Abydos in four hours, recreating Leander's feat.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Sestos (116 words)

	Abydos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abydos was the name of two ancient cities:
		The name Abydos was used by the science-fiction film Stargate, and subsequently the television series Stargate SG-1, as the name of a planet.
		Akhmin, Abydos, Dendera, Malawi, Ashmonien and Amara [along the way] are all incredible sites with incredible history.
	www.33beat.com /Abydos.html (136 words)

	The Monuments of Abydos
		Thence the Greeks named it Abydos, like the city on the Hellespont (the Dardanelles, the narrow strait between European and Asiatic Turkey); the modern Arabic name is Arabet el Madfuneh.
		The history of the city begins in the late prehistoric age, it having been founded by the pre-Menite kings (Petrie, Abydos, ii 64), whose town, temple and tombs have been found there.
		The discovery of the Osirion is discussed by Sir William Flinders Petrie and Margaret Alice Murray in: The Osirion at Abydos
	ascendingpassage.com /Monuments-of-Abydos-Petrie.htm (1618 words)

	"Swimming the Hellespont" By Richard Halliburton - Travelers' Stories About Turkey
		The name of "Hellespont" ("Dardanelles" on the modern maps) goes back to legendary ages, receiving its title from "Helle," the King of Thessaly's daughter who fell into the channel from the winged ram with the golden fleece, on whose back she was fleeing from her enemies.
		He dragged her down the cliff-path to the very edge of the Hellespont, and then up to the top of a tower where the wretched maiden was left in solitary imprisonment, safe from the approach of any more sac- rilegious lovers.
		Three thousand years later, Lord Byron was so gripped by the sapphire beauty of the Hellespont, and by the drama of its storied shores, that he ceased his restless wanderings and for an entire year rested in a charming little house at the very edge of the water near the site of Abydos.
	www.adiyamanli.org /travel/index.php?showtopic=53 (3927 words)

	Home - Abydos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abydos (P8X-873, Stargate address: 16px16px16px16px16px16px) is the fictional world on which the film Stargate is set.
		In the ancient past, the Goa'uld Supreme System Lord Ra moved a number of ancient Egyptian people from Earth to Abydos via the stargate and forced them to mine naqahdah (Abydos is also the name of an ancient Egyptian city, and is possibly where those brought to the planet originated from).
		The banished System Lord Anubis destroyed Abydos' stargate, the pyramid of Ra, and the surrounding human settlement with a superweapon built from five components ("Eyes") that had once belonged to various prominent System Lords.
	abydos.en.infoax.org (9202 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abydos
		Abydos, Egypt, one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt.
		Abydos, Hellespont (also "Ábydos"), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor
		Abydos (thema), a historical province of the Byzantine Empire
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Abydos (155 words)

	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
		Abydoswas situated at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, and was famous as the legendary spot where Leander swam over to Sestus to visit his lover, Hero.
		Here, too, Xerxes built the famous bridge of boats (480 BC) on which he crossed with his troops to a promontory on the opposite European shore then torched the boats to make sure that there was no return for his army.
		Abydos is located to the south of Nara point and is about 2 km away from Çanakkale.
	www.comu.edu.tr /english/?comu=clk2&in=22 (865 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Abydos
		While Astyochus was still at Rhodes they had received from Miletus, as their commander after the death of Pedaritus, a Spartan named Leon, who had come out with Antisthenes, and twelve vessels which had been on guard at Miletus, five of which were Thurian, four Syracusans, one from Anaia, one Milesian, and one Leon's own.
		After passing unobserved the sixteen ships at Abydos, which had nevertheless been warned by their approaching friends to be on the alert to prevent their sailing out, at dawn they sighted the fleet of Mindarus, which immediately gave chase.
		One of these was stranded opposite to the temple of Protesilaus and taken with its crew, two others without their crews; the fourth was abandoned on the shore of Imbros and burned by the enemy.
	gutenkarte.org /place/7142/13389 (217 words)

	A to Aegyptus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		A Greek city on the Asian side of the Hellespont; the city of Sestos lies across the Hellespont on the European side of the narrow channel.
		There is a point of land jutting into the Hellespont from the European side of the waterway and it was at this spot, in 480 BCE, that the Persian king, Xerxes, built a pontoon bridge by lashing ships together and crossing the Hellespont from Abydos to Sestos.
		Before he arrived at Abydos, Xerxes instructed the townspeople to construct a platform of stones on a hill so that he could stand atop it and survey the massive army and navy he had assembled for the invasion of Greece.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_A.html (3482 words)

	Search Results for "Hellespont"
		At its mouth in 405 B.C. occurred the culminating battle of the Peloponnesian War.
		Her lover, Leander, swam the Hellespont nightly from Abydos to see her.
		Traversed by Mt. Ida (Kaz Daii) and strategically located on the Hellespont (Dardanelles), it was involved in various struggles...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Hellespont (252 words)

	Sestos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Situated on the Hellespont opposite Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of Hero and Leander.
		Xerxes' army crossed at this point on a bridge in 480 BC, and most of Alexander the Great's forces went the other way here by boat in 334 BC.
		In 1810 Lord Byron swam from Sestos to Abydos in four hours, recreating Leander's feat.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/se/sestos.html (108 words)

	Hellespont - Phantis
		482 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia and son of Darius, had two bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army, ostensibly made of 5 million men, could cross from Persia into Greece.
		The Hellespont was also the body of water which Leander would cross in order to tryst with his beloved, the priestess Hero.
		At the opening of the straights a sea battle was fought in the First Balkan War, between the Greek and Ottoman navies with the Greeks defeating the Turks.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Hellespont (230 words)

	Search Results for "Abydos"
		It was the favorite burial place for the kings of the earliest dynasties, and...
		He built temples at Thebes and Abydos and a magnificent tomb...
		Another was one of the great Hellenistic cities of Upper Egypt, on the Nile and N of Abydos.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Abydos (292 words)

	Hellespont - Herpes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They then began to build bridges across the Hellespont from Abydos to that headland between Sestus and Madytus, the Phoenicians building one of ropes made from flax, and the Egyptians building a second one out of papyrus.
		He drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont (strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey) to meet her.
		The obvious advantages to the Hellespont retailers have over main street Hellespont brick and mortar stores is the lower costs of running their office.
	herpes.best-resource-links-33.info /May_3/Hellespont (880 words)

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