1. In 481 b. c. Xerxes built a bridge of boats here to cross the Hellespont and invade Greece.

2. An town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern day Turkey .

3. An ancient town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern-day Turkey. It was the scene of the legendary tale of Hero and Leander.

4. In 492 BC Darius gathered together a great military force and sent 600 ships across the Hellespont .

5. An ancient town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern day Turkey .

6. The daughter of a Greek king who, while fleeing with her brother from their stepmother, drowned in the Hellespont, thereafter named for her.

7. Today, it is the Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the world's oil is carried, that has acquired the same strategic importance as the Hellespont had for the Athenians.

8. Valentine: that's on some shallow story of deep love, how young leander cross'd the hellespont.