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Karadeniz Ereğli

Zonguldak · Sea & Coast

Miniature relief of Karadeniz Ereğli
AI drawing · Open data

In his ‘Anabasis’, telling of the journey of ten thousand Greek soldiers along the Black Sea coast as they tried to get home, Xenophon mentions a cape near Herakleia — the cape where, the story goes, Heracles descended into the underworld to fetch Cerberus… Could the gates of hell really be in Karadeniz Ereğli?