Bosporus

1 From our chairs, we could look east and see giant cargo ships anchored in the Bosporus, waiting their turn to head up to the Black Sea.

2 That’s why I usually prefer to drive alongside the Bosporus, which runs like a sash between the European and Asian side of the city.

3 Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect “The only way to arrive at Semsi Pasha Mosque is by water,” my guide said as our little boat dodged two tankers on the Bosporus.

4 Ortakoy’s stone, brick and wood buildings are clustered on several pedestrian lanes just south of the First Bosporus Bridge.

5 The two vessels sailed through a temporary corridor for civilian ships from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to the Bosporus, Kubrakov said on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

6 Late-19th-century Art Nouveau apartment buildings have been refurbished; restaurants, bars, boutiques and galleries have opened; and the area, with its prime location, drop-dead views of the Bosporus and cheap rents, has gotten cleaner and safer.

7 Nevertheless, so long as Constantinople stood on the western shore of the Bosporus controlling access to the Black Sea, the Ottomans could not rest easy in their domains.

8 The government insists the canal will ease marine traffic in the Bosporus Strait but environmental groups fear the project will cause ecologic damage.

9 The first ship, the Razoni, carrying 26,527 tons of corn to Lebanon, anchored near the Bosporus entrance from the Black Sea about 36 hours after leaving Ukraine’s Odessa port.

10 For connoisseurs of hamsi, as anchovies are called in Turkish, the fat-padded specimens netted from the frigid Black Sea trump those taken from the Sea of Marmara, south of Istanbul and the Bosporus.

11 Turkey has blocked tankers, most of them carrying oil for companies operating in Kazakhstan like the joint venture of Chevron and Exxon Mobil, from transiting the narrow Bosporus.

12 Mr. Katona said the backup of oil-laden tankers at the Bosporus had reached 22, with 17 of them carrying oil from Kazakhstan.

13 Most hotels on the Bosporus are luxury affairs set in magnificent, palatial complexes.

14 What followed was a whirlwind tour of Istanbul, starting with a ferry ride across the Bosporus, the strait that divides the European and Asian parts of the city.

15 Court intrigue looms large and chillingly in “Architect” — “poisoned eunuchs, strangled concubines, beheaded viziers and sacks thrown into the waters of the Bosporus, their contents still wriggling with life …” .

16 Homo sapiens has long dealt with rising waters: Prehistoric Europeans had to move away from now-drowned Doggerland, the glacial outbursts of North America, even perhaps a sudden flooding at the Bosporus.

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

伊斯坦布尔位于黑海和马尔马拉海之间,博斯普鲁斯海峡及金角湾横贯其中.

18 The agreement - intended to help ease a global food crisis - was extended last month, but Ukraine said the number of cargo ships passing through the Bosporus carrying Ukrainian agricultural products was critically low.

19 Midday Meze | Noon The Bosporus shore is lined with pricey places offering fresh fish dishes.

20 On a gray afternoon last November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus.

1 海峡

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2 博斯普鲁斯海峡

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