Byzantium levied a toll on ships using this strait that opens into the Black Sea
... After this fortress was built the Turks levied toll on all ships that passed by, and
... [DOC] [TLE] the life of greece crete 01 [PAR] Therefore the colonists took with them a handful of earth from their native state to 
strew ... from Africa to Thrace and from Gibraltar to the eastern end of the Black 
Sea.