The strait holds a significant place in history. The Hellespont is the scene of the Greek legend of the two lovers Hero and.... strait strateg

The ancient city of Troy defended the Dardanelles from its strategic position at the southwest end (Asian side). The strait has always been of great strategic and economic importance as the gateway to Istanbul and the Black Sea from the Mediterranean. Duckworth in 1807, but during World War I the Allies failed to capture it, although a British submarine penetrated the minefields and sank a Turkish battleship off the Golden Horn, an inlet on the Bosporus strait. The city of Dardanus in the Troad (territory around ancient Troy), where Mithradates VI (king of Pontus) and Sulla (the Roman general) signed a treaty in 85 , gave the strait its name.