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Bosporus

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  • Type: Strait
  • Description: narrow strait in northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Bosphorus”, “Bosporus Strait”, “Istanbul Strait”, and “Karadeniz Boğazı”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sakıp Sabancı Museum and bridge Faith Sultan Mehmet.

Museum
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The Sabancı University is a private fine arts museum in , , dedicated to calligraphic art, religious and state documents, as well as paintings of the Ottoman era.

Bridge
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The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge, is a bridge in , spanning the Bosphorus strait. When completed in 1988, it was the 5th-longest suspension bridge span in the world.

Mosque
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, officially Emirgan Hamid-i Evvel Mosque is an 18th-century Ottoman located in the neighborhood of the district in , Turkey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kanlıca and Emirgan.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 3,943. It is on the side of the Bosphorus strait. It is known for a yogurt sprinkled with caster sugar, which is sold in local cafés.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 8,052. It is a leafy, middle-class suburb of , on the western shore of the Bosphorus north of the .

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 10,073. It is on the European side of .

Bosporus

Latitude
41.10164° or 41° 6′ 6″ north
Longitude
29.06097° or 29° 3′ 40″ east
Open location code
8GHF4326+M9
Geo­Names ID
745043
Wiki­data ID
Q35958
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bosporus” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bosphorus”
  • Afrikaans: “Bosporus”
  • Albanian: “Bosfori”
  • Amharic: “የቦስፖሮስ ወሽመጥ”
  • Arabic: “البسفور”
  • Arabic: “البوسفور”
  • Arabic: “بوسفور”
  • Arabic: “مضيق البسفور”
  • Arabic: “مضيق البوسفور”
  • Arabic: “مضيق بوسفور”
  • Aragonese: “Bosforo”
  • Aragonese: “Estreito d’o Bosforo”
  • Armenian: “Բոսֆոր”
  • Asturian: “Bósforo”
  • Asturian: “Bósforu”
  • Asturian: “estrechu del Bósforu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bosfor boğazı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bosfor”
  • Azerbaijani: “İstanbul boğazı”
  • Bashkir: “Босфор”
  • Basque: “Bosforo itsasarte”
  • Basque: “Bosforo itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Bosforo”
  • Belarusian: “Басфор”
  • Belarusian: “Басфорскі праліў”
  • Belarusian: “Праліў Басфор”
  • Bengali: “বসফরাস প্রণালি”
  • Bengali: “বসফরাস প্রণালী”
  • Bengali: “বসফরাস”
  • Bosnian: “Bosfor”
  • Breton: “Bosfor”
  • Bulgarian: “Босфор”
  • Bulgarian: “Босфора”
  • Bulgarian: “Източната криза”
  • Catalan: “Bòsfor Tràcic”
  • Catalan: “Bòsfor”
  • Catalan: “El Bòsfor”
  • Catalan: “Estret del Bòsfor”
  • Cebuano: “Bosforo”
  • Cebuano: “Bósforo”
  • Cebuano: “Bosphorous”
  • Cebuano: “Bosphorus”
  • Cebuano: “Bosporo”
  • Cebuano: “Bosporus”
  • Cebuano: “Istanbul Bogazi”
  • Cebuano: “İstanbul Boğazı”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆسفۆر”
  • Chechen: “Босфор”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦堡海峡”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦堡海峽”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔海峡”
  • Chinese: “博斯普魯斯”
  • Chinese: “博斯普魯斯海峽”
  • Chinese: “博斯普鲁斯海峡”
  • Chuvash: “Босфор”
  • Croatian: “Bospor”
  • Czech: “Bospor”
  • Danish: “Bosporen”
  • Danish: “Bosporus-strædet”
  • Danish: “Bosporus”
  • Danish: “Bosporusstrædet”
  • Dutch: “Bosporus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البوسفور”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق البوسفور”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق البوسوفور”
  • Esperanto: “Bosforo”
  • Esperanto: “Bospora markolo”
  • Esperanto: “Bosporo”
  • Estonian: “Bosporus”
  • Estonian: “Bosporuse väin”
  • Extremaduran: “Bósforu”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu de Bósforu”
  • Extremaduran: “Estrechu e Bósforu”
  • Finnish: “Bosborinsalmi”
  • Finnish: “Bospori”
  • Finnish: “Bosporin salmi”
  • Finnish: “Bosporinsalmi”
  • French: “Bosphore thrace”
  • French: “Bosphore”
  • French: “Détroit du Bosphore”
  • Gagauz: “Bosfor”
  • Galician: “Bósforo”
  • Galician: “Canle do Bósforo”
  • Galician: “Estreito do Bósforo”
  • Georgian: “ბოსფორი”
  • Georgian: “ბოსფორის სრუტე”
  • German: “Bosphorus”
  • German: “Bosporus”
  • German: “Straße von Konstantinopel”
  • Greek: “Βόσπορος”
  • Guarani: “Bósforo”
  • Hebrew: “בוספורוס”
  • Hebrew: “הבוספורוס”
  • Hebrew: “מצרי הבוספורוס”
  • Hindi: “बास पोरस जलसन्धि”
  • Hindi: “बोस्पोरुस जलसन्धि”
  • Hindi: “बोस्फ़ोरस”
  • Hungarian: “Boszporusz”
  • Icelandic: “Bosporus”
  • Icelandic: “Bospórus”
  • Icelandic: “Bosporussund”
  • Icelandic: “Bospórussund”
  • Icelandic: “Sæviðarsund”
  • Ido: “Stretajo Bosforo”
  • Indonesian: “Bosporus”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Bosphorus”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Bosporus”
  • Interlingua: “Bosphoro”
  • Interlingua: “Bosporo”
  • Interlingue: “Bosporus”
  • Irish: “An Bhosparais”
  • Italian: “Bosforo”
  • Italian: “Canale del Bosforo”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブール海峡”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブル海峡”
  • Japanese: “ボアズィチ”
  • Japanese: “ボスフォラス海峡”
  • Japanese: “ボスポラス海峡”
  • Javanese: “Selat Bosporus”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bosfor”
  • Kazakh: “Боспор бұғазы”
  • Kazakh: “Босфор бұғазы”
  • Kirghiz: “Босфор”
  • Korean: “다리우스 운하”
  • Korean: “보스포러스 해협”
  • Korean: “보스포러스”
  • Korean: “보스포로스 해협”
  • Korean: “보스포루스 해협”
  • Korean: “보스포루스”
  • Korean: “보스포르 해협”
  • Korean: “보스포르해협”
  • Korean: “이스탄불 해협”
  • Kurdish: “Boğaziçi”
  • Kurdish: “Bosphorus”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Bosforê”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Stembolê”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Stenbol”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Stenbolê”
  • Ladino: “Bosfor”
  • Latin: “Bosphorus”
  • Latin: “Bosporus”
  • Latvian: “Bosfora jūras šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Bosfora šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Bosfors”
  • Limburgan: “Bosporus”
  • Lithuanian: “Bosforas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bosforo sąsiauris”
  • Lombard: “Bosfor”
  • Low German: “Bosporus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bosporus”
  • Macedonian: “Босфор”
  • Malay: “Bosporus”
  • Malay: “Selat Bosporus”
  • Malayalam: “ബോസ്ഫറസ്”
  • Marathi: “बॉस्फरसाची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Marathi: “बोस्फोरस सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Marathi: “बोस्फोरस”
  • Marathi: “बोस्फोरसची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Mazanderani: “بسفر تنگه”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოსფორი”
  • Mongolian: “Босфорын хоолой”
  • Newari: “बस्फरस जलसन्धि”
  • Newari: “बोस्पोरुस जलसन्धि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bosporus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosphorus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosphorusstredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosporos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosporosstredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosporus-stredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosporus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bosporusstredet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boğaziçi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bosporos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bosporossundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bosporus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vosporos”
  • Norwegian: “Bosporos”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bosfòr”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bosporos”
  • Ossetian: “Босфор”
  • Persian: “بسفر”
  • Persian: “بسفور”
  • Persian: “بوسفور”
  • Persian: “تنگه استانبول”
  • Persian: “تنگه بسفر”
  • Persian: “تنگه بوسفور”
  • Polish: “Bosfor”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Bosfor”
  • Portuguese: “Bósforo”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de bósforo”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito do Bósforo”
  • Portuguese: “Golfo de Nicomédia”
  • Pushto: “باسپورس تنګئ”
  • Romanian: “Bosfor”
  • Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Bosfor”
  • Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Istanbul”
  • Russia Buriat: “Босфорой хоолой”
  • Russian: “Боспор Фракийский”
  • Russian: “Босфор”
  • Russian: “Босфорский пролив”
  • Russian: “Константинопольский пролив”
  • Russian: “Пролив Босфор”
  • Rusyn: “Боспор”
  • Saraiki: “آبنائے باسفورس”
  • Sardinian: “Bòsforu”
  • Scots: “Bosphorus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bòsfaras”
  • Serbian: “Bogaziçi”
  • Serbian: “Istanbulski moreuz”
  • Serbian: “Босфор”
  • Serbian: “Босфорски мореуз”
  • Serbian: “Истанбулски мореуз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bosfor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bospor”
  • Sicilian: “Bosforu”
  • Sicilian: “Bosfuru”
  • Sicilian: “Canali dû Bosfuru”
  • Slovak: “Bospor”
  • Slovenian: “Bospor”
  • Somali: “Boosfoor”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستانبول بوغازی”
  • Spanish: “Bosforo”
  • Spanish: “Bósforo”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Bosforo”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Bósforo”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Bosforo”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Bósforo”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Estambul”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho del Bosforo”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho del Bósforo”
  • Sundanese: “Selat Bosporus”
  • Swahili: “Bosporus”
  • Swedish: “Bosporen”
  • Swedish: “Istanbul Bogazi”
  • Swedish: “İstanbul Boğazı”
  • Tajik: “Босфор”
  • Tamil: “பொசுபோரசு”
  • Tamil: “பொஸ்போரஸ் நீரிணை”
  • Tamil: “பொஸ்போரஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Босфор бугазы”
  • Tatar: “Босфор проливы”
  • Tatar: “Босфор”
  • Thai: “Bosphorus”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบบอสพอรัส”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบบอสฟอรัส”
  • Thai: “บอสฟอรัส”
  • Turkish: “Bosfor”
  • Turkish: “İstanbul Boğazı”
  • Uighur: “ئىستانبۇل بوغازى”
  • Ukrainian: “Боспорська протока”
  • Ukrainian: “Босфор”
  • Ukrainian: “Босфорська протока”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bosporus”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے استنبول”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے باسفورس”
  • Urdu: “آبنائےباسفورس”
  • Urdu: “باسفورس”
  • Uzbek: “Bosfor”
  • Vietnamese: “Bosphore”
  • Vietnamese: “Bosphorus”
  • Vietnamese: “Bosporus”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Bosphorus”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Bosporus”
  • Vlaams: “Bosporus”
  • Walloon: “Bosfore”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bosforo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bosphorus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bosporo”
  • Welsh: “Bosphorus”
  • Welsh: “Bosporus”
  • Welsh: “Bosporws”
  • Western Armenian: “Վոսփոր”
  • Western Frisian: “Bosporus”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبنائے استنبول”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبنائے باسفورس”
  • Western Panjabi: “باسفورس”
  • Wu Chinese: “博斯普鲁斯海峡”
  • Yiddish: “באספארוס”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯坦堡海峽”

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