Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A narrow strait separating European and Asian Turkey and joining the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It has been an important trade route since ancient times.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strait or channel between two seas, or between a sea and a lake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Bosphorus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
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Examples
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The name Bosporus was properly applied to the long narrow channel, now called the Straits of Kaffa or Yenikalé, which unites the Black Sea and the Mæotis or Sea of Azoff.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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The Bosporus is a link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Bosporus 2002
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The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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His personal library already boasts a treasure trove of over 7,000 rare The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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His personal library already boasts a treasure trove of over 7,000 rare The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in
WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up 2010
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The Bosporus is the physical and metaphorical heart of Istanbul and ferry tours are cheap and rewarding.
uefa.com - News 2009
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One project that will increase oil transit through the Bosporus is the Russian-backed Northern Route Export Pipeline, a 990-mile pipeline that transports oil from Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea area oil deposits to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
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