1. Or what about the Bosporus; the last traditional boat used to umpire the races at the regatta.

2. Situated on the shores of the Bosporus , the palace has been restored to its orginal splendor and is now part of a luxury hotel.

3. The Bosporus provides sole access for ships to Georgia's Black Sea ports.

4. Ferries cross paths in the Bosporus, the water body that represents the boundary between the European and Asian sides of Istanbul.

5. Bosporus(the Strait of Istanbul) links the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is one of the most dangerous and busiest waterways in the world and has geopolitical, strategic and economic importance.

6. The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.

7. The city lies on both sides of the Bosporus Channel and the Sea of Marmara, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

8. The Bosporus Bridge is quite literally a bridge between two continents, with signboards proclaiming "Welcome to Europe" and "Welcome to Asia" at either end.

9. It controls the Bosporus , as well as gas or oil pipeline routes that would allow Europe to become less dependent on Russia for its energy supplies.

10. Find: The seabed river flows from Turkey's Bosporus Among the largest of these channels is off the coast of Brazil where the Amazon enters the Atlantic Ocean.

11. Bosporus is a rail - freight bottleneck between Europe and Asia.

12. Oil exports from former Soviet republics have turned the Bosporus into a pulsing artery of the world's oil supply.

13. Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" can enliven a journey on any waters(), and it will never be forgotten if you recite it on the Bosporus.

14. One possibility is that the Black Sea filled first, with excess fresh water flowing over the Bosporus sill and eventually into the Mediterranean Sea.

15. Like Dent, Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand became fixated on an unrealized Leonardo dream, the Bosporus bridge.

16. The practice spread throughout many other European countries, and, as late as the nineteenth century, murderers in Turkey were tossed into the Bosporus in a sack.

17. A sea of northwest Turkey between Europe and Asia. It is connected to the Black Sea through the Bosporus and to the Aegean Sea through the Dardanelles.

18. The Turkish government is responsible for policing the 32-kilometer Bosporus, the only route for ships traveling to the Black Sea, under the Montreux agreement of 1936.

19. Look to the right (scroll right) and you can spot one in this twilight panorama across the Bosporus Strait and along the skyline of the historic city of Istanbul.

20. The largest city of Turkey, in the northwest part of the country on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara.

21. Istanbul lies between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, forming Strait of Bosporus and Golden Horn Bay.

22. When you come to Istanbul, you must go to see its most famous attractions: Bosporus Bridge, Sultanahmet Mosque and Hagia Sophia Museum.

23. And Thrace, that strategic slip of Turkey on the western side of the Bosporus -- Asia's gateway to Europe -- is ground zero in this struggle.

24. The treaty extended the Russian frontier to the southern Bug River and allowed Russia to navigate freely in Ottoman waters through the Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles.

25. Tuzmen attacked the regulations as political, saying Moscow may be punishing it for allowing the U.S. ships to pass through the Bosporus.

26. Istanbul lies between the Sea and Sea of Marmara of Bosporus and Golden Horn Bay.