monoxyla

Updated: May 5, 2025

Their monoxyla, or one-oared canoes, loaded with silks, furs, and precious metals, issued from the Borysthanes, traversed the Baltic and the Euxine, the Oder and the Bosphorus, the Danube and the Black Sea, and carried on the commerce between the Turks and the Slavonians.

Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin - The Haskalah Movement in Russia

The image of their naval armaments was revived in the last century, in the fleets of the Cossacks, which issued from the Borysthenes, to navigate the same seas for a similar purpose. The Greek appellation of monoxyla, or single canoes, might justly be applied to the bottom of their vessels.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5