This strait entering the Aegean may be named for Troy's founder, Dardanus
Date Timeline Founding Bronze Heroic Age Troy Trojan Empire Dardanelles 
Bosporus ... Strait Passed Up Young Troy Trojan Empire Hellespont Aegean Sea 
... Argonauts sailed into the Straits of Dardanus to enter on-up-into the Black Sea, 
... of Dardanus, after whom the Strait to the Black Sea was named.