), a salt.lake, south of the southernmost mouth of the Danube.
It was properly a part of the Euxine, with which it communicated by a narrow channel.
It extended from the town of Istrus in the south, nearly as far as Aegyssus on the Danube. On its western coast existed a town of the name of Halmyris. (Plin. Nat. 4.24
; Procop. de Aed.
4.7; Philostorg. 10.10; Niceph. Hist. Eccles.