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bosporus

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Word definitions for bosporus in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
''For namesakes, see Bosporus Bosporus is a former bishopric in the Crimean city now called Kerch but remains a Latin Catholic titular Archiepiscopal See.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bosporus \Bos"po*rus\ (b[o^]s"p[-o]*r[u^]s), n. [L.] 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, ...

Usage examples of bosporus.

Besides controlling the Bosporus, the Trojan kingdom also controlled a couple of the best land routes up onto the Anatolian plateau.

Europe, then aboard a fast ship through the Mediterranean and the Bosporus Straits into the Black Sea, where battles raged on the Crimean peninsula.

Sofia doing surveillance on a ex-Montenegrin secret policeman who was involved in selling Russian air-to-surface ATASM missiles from Transnistria through the Bosporus to the John the Baptist Liberation Army, Iraqi Mandaean separatists who operated out of Cyprus.

Where land bombards and fortifications could be brought into play, as Alexius could manage in the Bosporus, it might be worthwhile.

It must have seemed so to followers of Mahomet, when the crescent knew no pause in its march up the Arabian peninsula to the Bosporus, to India, along the Mediterranean shores to Spain, where in the eighth century it flowered into a culture, a learning, a refinement in art and manners, to which the Christian world of that day was a stranger.

Near East, with the sudden appearance and brilliant victories of the Aryan Persians over every nation of the ancient world save Greece, from the Bosporus and Upper Nile to the Indus.

Other than some contact we have made with resistance forces in the interior with whom we are trying to plan some operations, and except for the area immediately to the east of the Bosporus, the entirety of Turkey has now come under GIR control.

The real money lay in shipping oil to Western European refineries, and that meant shipping oil through the Bosporus Straits into the Mediterranean.