Qualla: Euripus Strait https://qualla.com/euripus-strait en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Euripus Strait https://qualla.com/euripus-strait Euripus Strait: Introduction https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ Stand on the old bridge at Chalcis and watch the water long enough, and you will see it do something the sea is not supposed to do: stop, hesitate, and turn around. Several times a day the current in the Euripus Strait reverses, racing south, then north, then south again, sometimes fast enough that small boats cannot fight it. In a corner of the Mediterranean where tides are normally too feeble to notice, this thin sliver of water between island and mainland behaves like a tidal river. For more than two thousand years, no one could explain why.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/euripus-strait-wp/swbf-euripus-strait-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Euripus Strait: The Reversing Tide https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ The Euripus separates the Greek island of Euboea from Boeotia on the mainland, and at Chalcis it pinches down to its narrowest point. Here the water rushes through at up to twelve kilometers an hour, first one way and then the other, changing direction roughly four times a day. T...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/euripus-strait-wp/swbf-euripus-strait-the-reversing-tide.mp3 0:06 2 full Euripus Strait: The Problem That Would Not Solve https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ The strange tide became a famous puzzle of the ancient and modern world alike. A persistent legend holds that Aristotle, who studied on Euboea, was so frustrated by his failure to explain it that the riddle haunted his final days. The science took far longer than anyone expected....

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/euripus-strait-wp/swbf-euripus-strait-the-problem-that-would-not-solve.mp3 0:06 3 full Euripus Strait: A Channel Opened by Earthquake https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ The Euripus has not always been open water. For thousands of years it was blocked by a natural dike of coarse sediment, until roughly six thousand years ago an unrecorded earthquake tore it open and let the sea pour through. From then on the channel became a strategic prize. When...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/euripus-strait-wp/swbf-euripus-strait-a-channel-opened-by-earthquake.mp3 0:06 4 full Euripus Strait: Nigriponte https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ For the rest of antiquity and the Middle Ages, engineers fought a running battle with the strait. The geographer Strabo recorded a bridge across it; the historian Procopius, writing under Emperor Justinian in the sixth century, described two channels, one of them so narrow it cou...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/f/euripus-strait-wp/swbf-euripus-strait-nigriponte.mp3 0:06 5 full Euripus Strait: Widening the Gap https://qualla.com/euripus-strait/ The shipping passage we see today was carved slowly out of that history. The Ottoman traveler Evliya Celebi, who visited in 1668, noted that the narrow eastern channel had only been opened enough for a galley to squeeze through in the late sixteenth century, and was still barely ...

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