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Noun: Bosporus  bós-pu-rus
  1. A strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
    - Bosphorus

Type of: sound, strait

Part of: Republic of Turkey, Turkey, Türkiye

Encyclopedia: Bosporus