bosporus
Speech parts
1. bosporus - Noun
2. Bosporus - Proper noun
Meaning
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.
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A 900-kilometer U.S.- financed alternate route, known as the AMBO pipeline, would bring oil from Burgas across Bulgaria and Macedonia to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, bypassing both the Bosporus and Greece.
Additionally, two bridges over the Bosporus Strait have been closed. citation After the failed military coup, thousands of soldiers have been arrested and hundreds of judiciary members removed.
After Constantinople became the East Roman capital, emperors in the 4th and 5th centuries would retire from the humid summer weather on the Bosporus to the drier mountain atmosphere of Ancyra.
Galanopoulos, Angelos Geōrgiou, and Edward Bacon, Atlantis: The Truth Behind the Legend, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969 In the area of the Black Sea the following locations have been proposed: Bosporus and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon ).
More precisely, the WHS will take place in Istanbul, a place where East meets West on the shores of the Bosporus Straits.
The Russian Navy's landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov, hardly worthy of the description 'Armada' bestowed by a Western tabloid, sails in the Bosporus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea.