Mesembria

Ers, Mores and Merkery are surgents below the rim of the Zenith Part while Arctura, Anatolia, Hesper and Mesembria weep in their mansions over Noth, Haste, Soot and Waste. —

Finnegans Wake 2006

In 812 he took the important fortress of Mesembria, and in 813 won another victory at Versinicia.

766 2001

After a defeat by the Greeks (814), he concluded a 30-year peace with them, returning Mesembria and Adrianople.

766 2001

On the day of the first trial a council of clergy was held, and the emperor was persuaded to send Maximus to Byzia in Thrace, and his disciples, Abbot Anastasius and Anastasius the papal apocrisiarius, to Perberis and Mesembria.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Mesembria (the modern Misivria) in 812 and Adrianople in 813, Krum appeared before the capital, where he nearly lost his life in an ambush while negotiating for peace.

The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

Subsequently they were moved to Mesembria and then to Constantinople, from which city the great Doge Dandolo brought them to Venice.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Aesop.

Fables Aesop 1880

Little is authentically known regarding the career of the renowned fabulist, who is supposed to have been born about B.C. 620, and, as in the case of Homer, various places are assigned as that of his nativity -- Samos, Sardis, Mesembria in Thrace, and Cotiæium in Phrygia.

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and

Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources 620 BC-563 BC Aesop 1865

The Greek places on the Black Sea, Mesembria, Acheloum, and Bizon, surrendered on the first summons; Selybria alone deserved the honors of a siege or blockade; and the bold inhabitants, while they were invested by land, launched their boats, pillaged the opposite coast of Cyzicus, and sold their captives in the public market.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765