| As we chugged across the Bosphorus we passed a school of ferries criss-crossing the straits in their livery of yellow and white. |
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| There are parchments of painstaking calligraphy, replete with fabulous swirls and curlicues, and magic carpets wider than the Bosphorus. |
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| The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather. |
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| Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. |
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| The building, whose economical and utilitarian design gives it an imposing solidarity, is still there, situated about 300 metres from the Bosphorus shoreline. |
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| Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith. |
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| Nor is it doubted by historians that Ibrahim the Mad had two hundred and eighty women of his seraglio sewn into sacks and cast into the Bosphorus. |
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| His corpse, which was subsequently dumped in the Bosphorus, had a fatwa pinned to it. |
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| A navy of 10,000 vessels, including Pecheneg allies, landed on the Bithynian coast and devastated the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. |
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| The fortress of Therapia on the Bosphorus and a smaller castle at the village of Studius near the Sea of Marmara were taken within a few days. |
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| If we must have pointy boats, I moaned, why can't we have copies of the caiques that used to ply the Bosphorus? |
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| In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. |
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| A Russian army of 10,000 landed on the Bosphorus shores in 1833 and helped to prevent the capture of Constantinople. |
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| With the Russian occupation of the Danube Principalities in October, they moved to the Bosphorus and in November entered the Black Sea. |
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| In Istanbul, ferries connect the European and Asian shores of Bosphorus, as well as Princes Islands and nearby coastal towns. |
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| Despite its wide range, however, little gene flow occurs across certain natural barriers, such as the Strait of Gibraltar or the Bosphorus. |
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| The Turkish Straits connect the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea, and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. |
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| The Black Sea only experiences water transfer with the Mediterranean Sea, so all inflow and outflow occurs in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. |
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| The Black Sea is connected to the World Ocean by a chain of two shallow straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. |
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| To head that off Britain sought to keep the Russians from occupying Constantinople and taking over the Bosphorus Strait, as well as from threatening India via Afghanistan. |
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| In the bearpit by the Bosphorus, no-one was grizzlier than Rooney. |
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| One possibility is that the Black Sea filled first, with excess fresh water flowing over the Bosphorus sill and eventually into the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| The Bosphorus Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean. |
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| Massive numbers of large raptors and storks pass through areas such as the Strait of Messina, Gibraltar, Falsterbo, and the Bosphorus at migration times. |
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| A hasty peace was signed on a boat in the middle of the Bosphorus. |
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