Sallum was known in antiquity as Catabathmus Maior, Plynos Limen and Tetrapyrgia. It was known as the "Limen" until the sixteenth century. Frankincense from Dhofar was collected at Moscha Limen. Its site is located near Lykiou Limen in European Turkey. Strabo and Ptolemy referred to it as "Gazaion limen". Some of these settlements had earlier been Greek settlements, such as Kalos Limen and Kerkinitis. On the north side of the peninsula is Chernomorskoe/Kalos Limen. Achaion Limen () was a port town of ancient Aeolis. This limen is also known as the difference limen, difference threshold, or least perceptible difference. Choreographer Wayne McGregor cast her in his new 2009 ballet "Limen". Victor Turner's mortuary ritual offers three phase of ritual performance&colon; separation, limen and reintegration. It or the surrounding marshland were sometimes called Borboros 'slime' or Borboros Limen. Prior to being called the Rother, it was known as the Limen throughout its length.