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Bosporus

noun
(Written also Bosphorus)
1.
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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... city on the peninsula, we left Italy at Brindisi on the last day of 1890 for Corfu, in Greece. Thence we traveled to Patras, proceeding along the Corinthian Gulf to Athens, where we passed the winter. We went to Constantinople by vessel in the spring, crossed the Bosporus in April, and began the long journey described in the following pages. When we had finally completed our travels in the Flowery Kingdom, we sailed from Shanghai for Japan. Thence we voyaged to San Francisco, where we arrived on Christmas ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben


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