Euxine

It is pretty evident that Russian supremacy on the shores of the Black Sea is incompatible with that independence of Turkey which forms a large element in preserving what, in the slang of diplomacy, is called “the balance of Europe.”

1854 October 26, “Russia on the Euxine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

The London News, animated by the success of the Allies in the Sea of Azoff, sketches out a magnificent project for freeing the Euxine from Russian domination, and for erecting a perpetual barrier against her march upon Turkey and Persia.

1855 June 22, “Russia to Rule the Euxine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

It is not, however, probable that the Great Powers will suffer the Sultan to overwhelm the Christians with the barbarous hordes of Asia, and therefore, the conflict will result in the expulsion of the Moslem from Europe, or their extermination there. Nor would mankind have any reason to regret either catastrophe, if all the provinces and dependencies lost to the Infidel on this side of the Ægean and Euxine, were to be consolidated into a free Hellenic monarchy, the nucleus of which would be the present kingdom of Greece, and its Capital, the metropolis of the Eastern Caesars.

1863 June 28, “The Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

The post at the Black Sea port of Sinop—the ancient Sinope, which centuries ago colonized the shores of the Euxine—strains to hear Soviet voices.

1976 May 16, David Kahn, “Big Ear or Big Brother?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024