"Bosphorus" - what is it?

The Bosphorus connects the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean seas and has been used as a major trade and transportation artery for thousands of years. It is also considered to be a border between Europe and Asia. Because of the strategic importance of the Bosphorus, the city of Istanbul has often traded hands and has had many names over recorded history including Constantinople, New Rome and Byzantium. Beginning in 1453, the city was the seat of the Ottoman Empire and is now the largest city in the Turkish Republic and the home of over 14 million people, making it more populous than either the cities of New York or Los Angeles.

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neil m glanville

The most fascinating aspect of the Bosphorus is that it's less than 10,000 years old, the result of global warming which resulted in the waters of the Mediterranean running through the Bosphorus and creating the Black Sea. The waterfalls which filled the Black Sea over several decades were hundreds of times greater than any waterfalls extant today. Cool!

Char

gdwhitton, I did it too

Irene Townsend

It was a Geography question, there was only one answer that actually was a geography answer, at least that's how I saw it.

Lawanta

That spelling really threw me off... I've only seen it written before as Bosporus.

vasily tchaikovsky

good easy Q thanks . Russia had a chance to control it but sold rights to Turki

Marquita Simmons

6 of 10.

Alan Ridley

In the early 1970s I was a stoker on board Hms Bulwark carrying VIPs.little did I know they were Frank Dinsdale, the managing director of Cleveland Bridge coma seared to build the bridge accross the Bosporus. I was more amazed to learn that Frank Dinsdale was also a regular of The Davenport Hotel where my mam lived in Middleton St George xx