NOUN
- a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
How To Use Bosporus In A Sentence
- Christian peoples scattered throughout Asia Minor and along the Bosporus until this barbarous Ottoman Government is swept from the face of the earth. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
- Tell that to Huseyin Ertan, a retired naval officer who is the Bosporus's chief traffic cop.
- The largest city of Turkey, in the northwest part of the country on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara.
- Saline and warm Mediterranean water flowing through the Bosporus Strait maintains a permanent pycnocline.
- We enter a caique, where we take our seals in oriental fashion, and two rowers, dressed in grey-white, striped silk shirts and red fezzes, sped us up the Bosporus.
- The treaty extended the Russian frontier to the southern Bug River and allowed Russia to navigate freely in Ottoman waters through the Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles.
- Oil exports from former Soviet republics have turned the Bosporus into a pulsing artery of the world's oil supply.
- Bosporus, one of the finest strategetical positions of the old continent. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
- Attended by the _cavass_ [4] of the Swedish Embassy, old Ali, I drove down to the quay on a fresh, sunny October morning, loaded all my boxes on board a _caique_, and was rowed by four men out to the Bosporus between anchored sailing vessels, steamers, and yachts. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
- It might reflect what is effectively the obvious, that the Neolithic was a boon particularly to coastline communities, including some Mid IE-speaking peoples nearer to the Bosporus. The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model