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Euxine
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Definition:English-language writers of the 18th century often used the name Euxine Sea to refer to the Black Sea.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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She went to the cabinet of maps and unrolled one: this morning she might make herself finally sure that Paphlagonia was not on the Levantine coast, and fix her total darkness about the Chalybes firmly on the shores of the Euxine.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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