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- proper noun A
strait that passes throughIstanbul from theBlack Sea to theSea of Marmara , forming part of the traditional boundary betweenEurope andAsia .
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Examples
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The Bosphorus is the strait that separates european Istanbul from asian Istanbul.
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The Bosphorus is the strait that separates european Istanbul from asian Istanbul.
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But our torpedo boats afterwards they have very successful mines in Bosphorus, and when Goeben went out for the next fleet he exploded.
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12 From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbor, this arm of the Bosphorus is more than seven miles in length.
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I can't imagine taking this boat out in the Bosphorus, which is a major shipping lane for giant ocean-going tankers, fishing boats, and luxury cruise liners.
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I can't imagine taking this boat out in the Bosphorus, which is a major shipping lane for giant ocean-going tankers, fishing boats, and luxury cruise liners.
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Before I examined John Arrowsmith's 1844(?) map of Turkey in Europe (downloaded from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection), I didn't know that another name for the Bosphorus was the Channel of Constantinople.
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I was living in a house quite close to the Bosphorus, which is a body of water that separates Europe from
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And that is, the Bosphorus cannot sustain ever-growing transit of oil from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
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Through the Aegean and into the Black Sea via the Bosphorus was a trade route as old as history could record, and it had been the site of the final battles between the Greek and Roman empires.
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