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    The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey. It connects...
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    The Marmara Region (Turkish: Marmara Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. Located in northwestern Turkey, it is bordered by Greece and the Aegean...
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    Marmara Island Marmara Island (Turkish: Marmara Adası) is a Turkish island in the Sea of Marmara. With an area of 126.1 km2 (48.7 sq mi) it is the largest...
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    proposed to explain the Late Quaternary sea level history of the Black Sea. About 8,000 YBP, the level of the Marmara Sea would have risen high enough for two-way...
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  • Haydarpasa Port, Port of Bandirma, Tekirdag Port, Yilport Yarimca (Marmara Sea). Also Isdemir, Tupras, Gubretas and Petrol Ofisi have their own ports...
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    Turkish straits (category Straits of the Mediterranean Sea)
    straits are on opposite ends of the Sea of Marmara. The straits and the Sea of Marmara are part of the sovereign sea territory of Turkey and are treated as...
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  • Nigeria Marmara (Lycia), a town of ancient Lycia, now in Turkey Marmara Region, comprising 11 provinces of Turkey Sea of Marmara, an inland sea to the...
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    a small pointed headland on the north shore of the Marmara Sea. It is called Marmara Ereğlisi (or Marmara Ereğli in colloquial usage) to distinguish it...
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  • Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Sea of Marmara. The Arctic Ocean (or Arctic Mediterranean Sea) The American Mediterranean Sea: the combination of the...
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    the "Pillars of Hercules") in the west to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, by the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus respectively, in the...
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    in Istanbul, Turkey. The Bosporus connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forms one of the continental boundaries between Asia and Europe. It...
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    the Aegean Sea. The Bosporus strait connects it to the small Sea of Marmara which in turn is connected to the Aegean Sea via the strait of the Dardanelles...
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    Istanbul-Marmara Island-Avşa Island in the Sea of Marmara. Built at the Golden Gate Shipyard by Turkish Shipbuilding Co. in 1994, the ship has a capacity of 1...
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    Dardanelles (redirect from Sea of Helle)
    Turkish Straits. One of the world's narrowest straits used for international navigation, the Dardanelles connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and...
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    Anatolia (redirect from Names of Anatolia)
    imprecise line from the Black Sea to Gulf of Iskenderun. Topographically, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through the Bosporus strait...
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    Marmara University (Turkish: Marmara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was...
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    cities of Istanbul and Edirne. The Bosphorus, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about twenty-five kilometers long and averages 1.5 kilometers...
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    submarine in the Sea of Marmara, sometimes two; in October 1915, there were four Entente submarines in the region. E2 left the Sea of Marmara on 2 January 1916...
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    "Beaufort Sea". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). "Sea of Marmara". 25 March 2021. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences - Variation of Water Quality of Chilika...
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    Istanbul (redirect from City of Istanbul)
    Mediterranean via the Sea of Marmara. Historically, the city has been ideally situated for trade and defense: The confluence of the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus...
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    artificial sea-level waterway planned by Turkey in East Thrace, connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and thus to the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. The...
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    Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Turkish lakes. The Turkish words for island/islands are ada/adalar. The largest Turkish island is Gökçeada in the Aegean Sea with...
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  • The 542 Sea of Marmara earthquake took place in the winter of 542 in the vicinity of the Sea of Marmara. It also affected the coasts of Thrace and the...
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    moderately dry summers. Strongly influenced by the Sea of Marmara to the south and the Black Sea to the north, it is thoroughly maritime; precipitation...
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    Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign (category Mediterranean naval operations of World War I)
    Mediterranean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea further north. The naval operations were defeated by the Ottoman defenders, mainly through use of naval...
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    Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the...
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    Gebze (redirect from History of Gebze)
    Istanbul, on the Gulf of Izmit, the eastern arm of the Sea of Marmara. Gebze is the largest district by population size in the province as of 2022, exceeding...
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    in front. Constantinople's location between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara reduced the land area that needed defensive walls. The city was built...
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    Neos Marmaras (Greek: Νέος Μαρμαράς, Néos Marmarás, pronounced [ˌneos marmaˈras], "New Marmara") is a town on the Sithonia peninsula, in the Chalkidiki...
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    Thracian Sea Strymonian Gulf Gulf of Saros Edremit Gulf Gulf of İzmir Icarian Sea Gulf of Gökova Sea of Crete Sea of Marmara Gulf of İzmit Levantine Sea Gulf...
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