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    Chalcedonian Bosporus (Bosporus Chalcedoniae, Βόσπορος τῆς Χαλκηδονίης [Bosporos tes Khalkedonies], Herodotus 4.87), or Mysian Bosporus (Bosporus Mysius)....
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  • Bosporus tunnel may refer to any of several tunnels under the Bosporus, connecting the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, specifically: The Bosporus...
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    The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, romanized: Basileía tou Kimmerikou...
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    Exterior view of the Gate to the Bosporus Exterior view of the Gate to the Bosporus Interior view of the Gate to the Bosporus A number of further residential...
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  • Bosporus overhead line crossings refers to the three transmission line crossings of the Bosporus, the strait in Istanbul, Turkey. Map all coordinates using...
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  • Mithridates II of the Bosporus, also known as Mithridates of Pergamon (died 46 BC[citation needed]), was a nobleman from Anatolia. Mithridates was one...
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    since silted up. The Romans knew the strait as the Cimmerian Bosporus (Cimmerius Bosporus) from its Greek name, the Cimmerian Strait (Κιμμέριος Βόσπορος...
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    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic,...
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    (72 cu mi) per year through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles into the Aegean Sea. While the net flow of water through the Bosporus and Dardanelles (known collectively...
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  • Bosporus Germans is the nickname given to ethnic Germans who were living in Istanbul from the second half of the 19th century. Even before then there was...
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    Bosporos Planum is a high plateau (planum) located in the Thaumasia quadrangle in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. It is about 730 km long stretching from...
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  • The Bosphorus or Bosporus is a major waterway in Istanbul, Turkey, that forms part of the Turkish Straits. Bosphorus or Bosporus may also refer to:...
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    Boğaziçi University (Turkish: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a prominent public research university in Istanbul, Turkey...
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  • The bridges spanning the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey are: Bosphorus Bridge, also called the First Bosphorus Bridge, a suspension bridge Fatih...
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  • the Bosporus area. To this end, on 28 March, 25 April, 2 May, and 3 May 1915, the Black Sea Fleet shelled Ottoman fortifications north of the Bosporus, also...
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    Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is...
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  • Leucon I (redirect from Leukon of Bosporus)
    Bosporus. He also made Sindike his vassal upon defeating Octamasades, and in an inscription from Nymphaion he is described as "archon of the Bosporus...
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  • Bosporus is a former bishopric in the Crimean city now called Kerch but remains a Latin Catholic titular archiepiscopal see. The diocese dates from pre-schism...
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    of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Paphlagonia to...
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    borders of Turkey. It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, separating Turkey’s European and Asian sides....
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    (8.4 mi) long undersea railway tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey, beneath the Bosporus strait, linking Kazlıçeşme, Zeytinburnu in Europe with Ayrılıkçeşmesi in...
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    Motorsport. 17 July 2005. Retrieved 25 June 2009. "Tiger Woods takes shot at Bosporus Bridge". Dünya. 6 November 2013. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015...
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  • article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Prytanis of Bosporus" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2021) (Learn how...
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    Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey. Together with the Bosporus, the Dardanelles forms the Turkish Straits. One of the world's narrowest...
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    canal and the Bosporus). The new waterway would bypass the current Bosporus. The canal aims to minimise shipping traffic in the Bosporus. It is projected...
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    conceal the Emir's involvement. The 64-room mansion, located on the banks of Bosporus, is 5,800 square-meters in size. "Who is the husband of Al-Anoud, the daughter...
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  • Akra (Ancient Greek: Ἄκρα) was an ancient Greek city at the Cimmerian Bosporus. The city is now underwater at the Kerch Strait, near the Naberezhne village...
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    Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus Strait. Europe covers about 10.18 million km2 (3.93 million sq mi), or...
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    Plans for Canal Bypassing Bosporus Straight”, jamestown.org/program/moscow-worried-about-ankaras-plans-for-canal-bypassing-bosporus-straits/ Retrieved December...
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    of Serbia and other Slav states, they preferred the strategically vital Bosporus straits to be controlled by a weak Ottoman government, rather than an ambitious...
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