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Pontos Euxinus

The body of water we call the Black Sea.

Originally called Axenos by the Greeks and then later called Euxine; the word Axenos means “an inhospitable place” but the newer name, Euxine, means “kind to strangers”; approximately 178,000 square miles (461,018 square kilometers) in area.

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