The Bosporus is a link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. From Wordnik.com. [Bosporus] Reference
The city has been magical for centuries, straddling the beautiful waterway known as the Bosporus, with one foot in. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Culture capital Istanbul wakes up] Reference
Crossing the Bosporus to Asia Minor, she had survived. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Crossing the Bosporus, they first captured Nicæa, the. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Belgium, Russia fights for the Bosporus and Constantinople. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Bosporus, but failed to wheedle all who came near his throne. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Or visit the period town of Yeniköy, slightly up the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Kelhawk: Turkish Delights in Istanbul: 2010 European Capital of Culture] Reference
Oresund (Denmark-Sweden), Bosporus (Turkey), Strait of Gibraltar. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Or visit the period town of Yeniköy, slightly up the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Kelhawk: Turkish Delights in Istanbul: 2010 European Capital of Culture] Reference
Straits (Bosporus, Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles) that link Black and. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Bosporus, to check the advance in his dominions of these new enemies. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Russians bombard Bosporus ports; Swedish steamer Ate blown up by mine. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
Bosporus (see p. 332), instead of diminishing the power and dignity of the. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
But one mile will be different, immersed beneath the shifting bed of the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay] Reference
Kars, and later to Odessa, where it formed part of the so-called Army of the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Hereafter the eyes of the world were directed towards the Bosporus instead of the Tiber. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
They rowed to the Bosporus, where they came to the iron chains stretched across the Sound. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
Bosporus Cruise Where else can you boat the narrow passage of water between two continents?. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Kelhawk: Turkish Delights in Istanbul: 2010 European Capital of Culture] Reference
Bosporus; but it was to Italy that he returned always, as to the mother country of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Those that crossed the Bosporus were surprised by the Turks, and almost all were slaughtered. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
May 9 -- Russians sink six Turkish transports off the Bosporus and two in the Sea of Marmora. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Constantine was the selection of Byzantium, on the Bosporus, as the new capital of the empire. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
But it was Justinian who, after Constantine, did most to adorn the new capital by the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Several good reasons could be urged for the removal of the world's metropolis from the Tiber to the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Pharnaces escaped to the sea and later forced his way into Bosporus, where Asander shut him up and killed him. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
Q Joe, back to the Bosporus, the Turkish government says it's going to slow tanker traffic through the Strait in 1999. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
Meanwhile, learning that Asander whom he had left as governor of the Bosporus had revolted, he no longer advanced any farther. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
The Queen shifted her residence to the little fishing village of Rheba, around the corner of the Bosporus on the Euxine shore. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Bosporus and the Mysian hills; and on the other side the stream of the river Aesepus and the city and Nepeian plain of Adrasteia. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
The first wave of invasion tore away Syria and Egypt from the empire, penetrated Asia Minor, and reached the shores of the Bosporus. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Persiens Ritter, eine Erzählung; (7) Die Zaubernächte am Bosporus, ein romantisches Gedicht; (8) Prinz Floridio, ein Märchen; (9). From Wordnik.com. [Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei] Reference
We're at the edge of the channel swept by the Bosporus, but even so there's vast quantities of sediment, several metres per century. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
The Thracian Bosporus was more beautiful than the Hellespont-and more majestic, thought Caesar, having sailed through the Hellespont. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The kingdom of Bosporus, however, he granted to Pharnaces as the wages of his bloody deed, and enrolled him among his friends and allies. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
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