Tag: <span>Bósforo</span>

Bosphorus (Istanbul, Turkey)

The Bosphorus (Turkish: Boğaziçi) is the 32 km (20-mile)-long north-south strait that joins the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea in Istanbul, and separates the continents of Europe and Asia. Bosphorus comes from a Tracian word of unknown origin, interpreted in Greek as meaning “Ford of the Cow”, from …