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The name was changed to "hospitable" after the Milesians had colonized the southern shoreline, the Pontus, making it part of Greek civilization., and it would be therefore a southern antipodal |
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According to the same explanation and reasoning, it is therefore considered to be impossible for the Scythians to have given the designation as they lived to the north of the sea. |
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Strabo's Geographica reports that in antiquity, the Black Sea was often just called "the Sea". He also thought that the Black Sea was called "inhospitable" before Greek colonization. |
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This symbolism based on cardinal points was used in a plethora of different occasions, and is therefore widely attested. For example, the "Red Sea", a body of water reported since the time. |
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