Everything about Sestos totally explained
Sestos was an ancient town of the
Thracian Chersonese, the modern
Gallipoli peninsula in European
Turkey. Situated on the
Hellespont opposite
Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of
Hero and Leander. Sestos was an
Aeolian colony, as it was founded by settlers from
Lesbos.
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.
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