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About the shoreline, there are conflicting descriptions of the Black Sea shoreline during Classical Antiquity, debate that also extends to the level of the Black Sea during that age. The region of the Danube Delta, although better researched, is subject to various competing theories. The map gives precedence to recent research, but also uses information from older sources to the degree they do not contradict the hypotheses presented in the former. The course of the Danube ignores any regularisation done in modern times (i.e. beginning with 19th century), while the Danube-Black Sea Canal (built in the second part of the 20h century) is not drawn, with the previously existing Carasu lake/marsh system drawn instead. Smaller modern lakes in the Delta and in the alluvial plan of the Danube are also not represented, as their existence during the Classical Antiquity cannot be confirmed. Information about the numerous limane (lagoons/estuaries) on the central and southern coast of actual Dobrudja is even scarcer when compared to data on the Danube Delta. An (implied) consensus is that all the littoral limane communicated directly with sea, however the extent of such communication is generally unspecified (i.e. whether the communication was done through more or less narrow channels, or the modern sand spits separating them from the sea were completely absent). We opted to not represent these spits, excepting the cases where archaeological research confirmed their presence during Classical Antiquity (the case for the lake Tăbăcăriei, whose spit is traversed by a Roman-era aqueduct). This explanation was written by Anonimu here [1]. --Julieta39 (talk) 19:35, 21 February 2020 (UTC)