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    The ancient legendary island of PEUCE – myth or re…

    The testimonies left by the ancient Greeks indicate the existence of the legendary Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube. Several locations for the island have been proposed throughout history: the pre-continental inland of Chilia, the fluvio-maritime levee of Letea, the initial alluvial fan of the Danube, the Dobroudjan inland between the Danube, the Black Sea and the valley of the Telita River and the Dunavat Peninsula, and others. All of these hypo…

    The testimonies left by the ancient Greeks indicate the existence of the legendary Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube. Several locations for the island have been proposed throughout history: the pre-continental inland of Chilia, the fluvio-maritime levee of Letea, the initial alluvial fan of the Danube, the Dobroudjan inland between the Danube, the Black Sea and the valley of the Telita River and the Dunavat Peninsula, and others. All of these hypotheses have been proven wrong, except for that regarding the Dunavat Peninsula; but for the Dunavat Peninsula to have represented an island, there must have been a fluvial or maritime corridor separating it from the rest of the Dobroudjan inland. The Beibugeac corridor represented the last link in deciphering this enigma. Interdisciplinary research has been conducted to confirm or refute the theory of the existence of an arm. The overall morphology is favourable to the existence of a fluvial arm. Nonetheless, analysis of the geologic boreholes demonstrates that the nature of the sediments is purely continental and that they originate in the superficial erosion of the calcareous slopes belonging to the Dunavat Hills and Bestepe Hills. The position of Peuce Island in the south of the most important Danubian arm makes possible its location between the Halmyris Gulf, the Danube Delta and the continental inland of Dobroudja. The ancient Greeks were interested only in the exploitation of the sea and the coastal area. For this reason, they built cities only within reach of the sea (Orgame [Argamum], Hist…

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    The location of the legendary Peuce Island by means of geological analyses.

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    The Beibugeac couloir was not a river branch or marine straight.

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    The Peuce Island mentioned by the Ancient Greeks was in fact a peninsula.

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    Antiquity

    Danube Delta

    Lateral and torrential erosion

    Island

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    The first Greek settlements on the western coast of the Black Sea were founded in the 8th–7th centuries BC (e.g., Istria, Tomis, Callatis, Orgame [Argamum]). The new territories were interesting from a commercial perspective, which is why people sought easy access routes to the continental inlands, mostly at the mouths of large rivers. Thus, the Ister (Danube) was mentioned early in the history of the descriptions made by foreign travellers.

    The first geographic information on the Circumpontic regions emerged in the ancient Greek literary works known as the Iliad and Odyssey. “An island, called Peuce from the name of the Sarmatian Nympha, stand where Hister [the Danube], savage stream, shoe either bank is ever terrible, flows down through his wild nurslings to the sea.” (Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 217 ff, trans. Mozley, Roman epic c. 1st century AD).

    The information regarding the Black Sea becomes increasingly prevalent starting in the 6th century BC. The descriptions of Anaximander, Hecataeus and Hellenicos were lost for the most part. The western Black Sea coast and the Danube mouths were implicitly mentioned by most Greek scholars or appeared on most cartographic materials (Herodotus, 484–420 BC; Apollonius of Rhodes, 295–230 BC; Eratosthenes, 275–295 BC; Polybius, 201–120 BC; Scymnus o…

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    The Danube Delta represents the terminus of the most important river in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers 5600 km2 and comprises Romania and a part of Ukraine. It has three main mouths (Chilia, Sulina and St. George), of which Chilia has the most significant discharge. The oldest arm is St. George, situated in the south. The Sulina arm was channelled in the period 1857–1902 by the European Commission of the Danube and shortened from 83 km to 62 km, as it was used for maritime transport (Fig. 2).

    In the south, it is delimited by the Hills of Tulcea and Bestepe, of Triassic and Jurassic age. Calcareous rocks modelled by external factors and transformed into a residual landform dominate the area, including inselbergs and pediments brought to the prediplanation stage. The lower, eastern edge of the Bestepe Hills is known as the Dunavat Hills.

    The Beibugeac corridor, whether an alleged fluvial arm or sea channel, is positioned between the main alignment of the Bestepe Hills and the Dunavat Hills. It is situated between the localities of Murighiol, towards the St. George arm in the northeastern sector, and Sarinasuf, towards the Razim-Sinoe lagoon complex in the southeastern sector. It is 10 km long and 1–2 km wide on average. In the central sector of the corridor are lakes with low-saline waters …

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