The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-10-09

rose TO power. the glories of Cyzicus
passed away. To-day practically moth
ing is left of the once great city. for
Byzantines and Turks alike used the
old buildings in the place of natural
Quarries rs sources of stone with
which TO bulld the latest metropolis OF
the Marmora and the Bosphorus.
Ncomedin, now ismid, at the ex.
treme eastern end OF the Marm0ra,
was another city OF world importance.
Under the Emperor Diocletian ii was
for a brief time the capital of Rome
and the world. Nicaea, just to the
south of Nicomedia and a short dis
tanee inland, has three times been the
seat Of empire. Twice the Turks. be.
lore they reached Constuntinople,
made Ii capital rlvuling Ia degree
old Bagdad; and for more than halt
the Thirteenth century. between its
peaks Of Turkish brilliance, while the
Franks held CUnstnntin0ple. il was the
capital Of tie Byzantine empire.
There, too, The Nicene creed, a land.
mark In The capitalization Of Chris.
tian theology was framed
Chalced0n, Rodos;o Heracleia Per.
lnthos, Selymoria we're other centers,
no mean cities In their day, which have
disappeared or dwlndled to inslgnif.
cnncc. Thriving communities In al.
most each ease urtii the Turk ap.
pealed Un HE s,e.tc, they have been
since touclici uEth lie blight 70 pros
per.ty ani progress that is said ever
10 follow his steps.
eeaphoruo M;a. important.
Shorter AMI narrower than the Oar.
danelles the BosphOrus. third link in
the chain of historic waters that sep.
arates Asia Minor ana Europe. is per.
hGps most important; it Is the imme.
diate gate TO and from the great Black
sea which reaches toward the heart Of
southwest Europe. 70 dominate II Is
To dominate one of the worlds great
trade routes, fact which has been
put 10 good account from the days Of
pre- byzantine Greeks 10 those of Sci.
juk Turks. The strait Is alOnt TWEEN.
~ miles long and varies in width from
l,SN feet or third of mile to two
niles. Darius chose not the narrows
hut n point at which the shores are
more than II halfmile apart rs the
site for his famous bridge Of boats.
Tile wafer in The Bosphorus is over
100 feet deep. \ mighty current flows
along the surfnce FROM the Black sea /;
but beneath Tie surface a return cur
rent " wafer lI0ws in the reverse d. !
rcct!On. \ similur inbound current /
flows from the Mediterranean to the I
Sea Of Marnora, furnishing for the (
Black sea II, lenst an answer to the .
old quory: Why is the sea salt?
rho Seljuk Turks recognized tho
strategic importance OF To BoSphorus:
and croS>,ng It above Cousmntlnople .
In 1852, built on the European shore
HE old "Crt-ihroat Castle" only seven
miles above the city. With the Bos-
.Auris In lheir control. they captured
he ancient capiia. The following year.
cntll the conclusion of the World
war and the adoption of the treaty of
seyres with defea,ed Turkey, the
Turks had sat Nr over 800 years as
he masters Of the Bosphorus
Many Nations Around Black Sea.
At the northern end Of the BoSphor-
iS lies he nlack seu--a dark, forbid.
ling ocean 10 the Iandsman and well
Worthy of ltS name one wonders that
he early Greeks named II Erxinos,
'lgnliyng friendly TO sirang rs" un-
ess they dld so Icy way of offering
prnpIiiu'nry comp!9nt to the angry
.cn god. .erc we are dealing with
10 small sea comparable In size 10
'ur lakes, hut with u great expanSc OF
,ater Tio miles long and from 200 10
100 miles wide, which would cover
Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and
SOUTH Carolina and a considerable
,nrt Of Tennessee into the bargain.
Around the Black sea are now
more nations than It's waters
lave Touched, perhaps. at any other
lme IN history. Just beyond the mar.
ow zone of the straits and the tiny
.atch lo which Turkey.lnE Europe has
hrunk Greece, forging northward,
iow has strip of the coast Next
ONES Bulgaria with u shoreine of
bout luO miles: and beyond 1t lies
loumaniu. occupying the greater pari
4 the western end If the sea. Across
he north stretches Russia. and ia the
~, lie ieorgla and Armenia. stretch.
ng along the rocky south shore IN
'urkey.ln'Asa. Hardly less interest.
d In the Black sea arr inland Austria,
'zecho o.Sovukla. Hungary and Jugo.
'ln,in, whose commerce reaches its
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