[further explanation needed] The toponym today refers to a neighborhood of the Turkish city of Çanakkale ("Fort Chanak").

Inland of that bay is the modern neighborhood of Dardanos, a gentrified community given over to tourism and summer resorts.

Dardan- is generally considered to be the stem in the word Dardan-elles, whether the straits were named after the point or after the city.

The above mentioned encyclopedic scholars toss around the phrase "at which the Hellespont begins to narrow" as a reason why Dardan- was chosen.

"[2] The position of Rhoetium is not very well localized either, but Bostock and Riley place it at Paleo Castro, appearing on the 1901 map.

The method is no more than a rough approximation, since Pliny and Strabo are not likely to have used the same stadion, and no information exists about how the stadia were acquired.

Position x, if the beginning of the 2.68 is the docks at Kepos, is up on the hill of Şehitlik Batarya for the 1.5 mi., down in the modern settlement for the 1 mi.

Four men were killed, or "martyred," for whose sake the name of the hill was changed after the war and a monument was constructed.

[10] In 1959 Rüstam Duyuran performing rescue archaeology on a wooded hill at 40°05′07″N 26°22′07″E / 40.0852°N 26.3685°E / 40.0852; 26.3685 discovered what is now termed the Dardanos Tumulus, an artificial mound containing a royal family tomb.

The town that Strabo knew was a colony of Aeolians and was distinct from the by then vanished Dardanus or Dardania presented in the Iliad as situated at the foot of Mount Ida and reputed to be named after Dardanus, who founded it earlier than the founding of Ilium.

[12] Nearly two centuries later, the taking by surprise of Spartan ships on that coast led to the Athenian victory of the Battle of Abydos in 411 BC.

Dardanus was also the place where in 85 BC Sulla and Mithridates VI of Pontus met and agreed on the Treaty of Dardanos.

Dardanus became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Cyzicus, the capital of the Roman province of Hellespontus.

Petrus took part in the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and was one of the bishops of Hellespontus who in 458 wrote a joint letter to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian regarding the murder of Patriarch Proterius of Alexandria.

No longer a residential bishopric, Dardanus is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.