It was located on the south side of the Dardanelles Strait between northwest Asia Minor and the Gallipoli Peninsula in Europe. Its prosperity came from supplying and providing anchorages for vessels which lay up in the strait awaiting favourable winds to trade in the Black Sea to the east.

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