Pomponius Mela, Julius Solinus, and the Antonine Itinerary

...that bend which we described above, Syria; and in the bend itself, Cilicia; outside, however, Lycia and Pamphilia. Caria. Ionia. Aeolis. Troas as far as the Hellespont. From there, the Bithyni are situated toward the Thracian Bosphorus. Around the Pontus are several peoples, each with its own boundary, all called by the single name of Pontici; toward the Maeotic Lake and the Tanais, the Sauromatae.

A General Description of Europe. Chapter II.

EUROPE has as its boundaries: from the east, the Tanais, the Maeotis, and the Pontus; from the south, the remainder of our sea; from the west, the Atlantic; from the north, the British Ocean. The shape of its coast is as follows: from the Tanais to the Hellespont, where the bank of the aforementioned river lies, and where the marsh’s bend leads back to the Pontus. Where it lies adjacent to the Propontis on the side of the Hellespont, it is not only not opposed to the opposite shores of Asia, but is even similar to them. Then, toward the strait, now stretching out widely, now protruding, it creates three great gulfs and raises itself into the deep with as many great headlands. Outside the strait to the west, it is quite irregular, especially the middle part which runs toward the north, except where it is led away once or twice by a large recession, almost as if it were extended in a straight line. The sea, which it receives in the first gulf, is called the Aegean. The one that follows at the mouth, the Ionian. The Adriatic is further in. The one we call the Tuscan in the final [part], which the Greeks call the Tyrrhenian. The first of the peoples is Scythia—different from that which was previously mentioned—extending from the Tanais nearly to the middle of the Pontic side. From here, it joins the continent of Thracia and Macedonia toward the part of the Aegean. Then Greece...