Sea of Azoph

English

Proper noun

the Sea of Azoph

  1. Rare spelling of Sea of Azov.
    • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, third edition, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1822, chapter vi: “History of the Greeks and Saracens.”, page 189:
      Two principal roads connect the nations of Tartary with those of the west and south; the one into Europe along the sea of Azoph, and northern coast of the Euxine; the other across the interval between the Bukharian mountains and the Caspian into Persia.
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