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Bosporus

The narrow water passage, 18 miles (29 kilometers) long, connecting the Euxine (Black Sea) and the Propontis, i.e. Sea of Marmara, and separating European Turkey from Asian Turkey.

Also called the Dardanelles Strait which was named after Dardanos (Dardanus), the ancestor of the Trojans.

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