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3 unusual facts about Bosphorus


François Baron de Tott

He built fortifications on the Bosphorus and started a naval science course that laid the foundation stone for the later naval school.

Kurban Said

For example, Essad Bey suggests that any woman who commits adultery should be tied up in a sack with a wild cat and thrown into the Bosphorus, or buried up to her head in the desert sands to be devoured at night by wild dogs.

Mordechai Rokeach

After crossing the Bosphorus straits by ferry, they were subject to a vigorous search and debriefing by the Brish secret service as "aliens" from Nazi-occupied territory.


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514 BC

Darius I leads his Persian army across the Bosphorus and campaigns unsuccessfully against the Scythians on the Danube.

Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury

Agent 077 From the Orient With Fury or Agent 077 Fury in the Orient or Agente 077 dall'oriente con furore or Fury on the Bosphorus is a 1965 Italian action spy adventure film of the Secret Agent 077 film series directed by Sergio Grieco.

Alexander Parvus

He managed to help prevent Russian naval Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak from taking on his offensive against the Turko-German Fleet in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles by planning the sabotage of a major Russian warship.

Ali Kibar

A founding member of the Young Businessmen Association and Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) Bosphorus Chapter, Ali Kibar is also a member of the board of directors of TÜSİAD.

Ali of Hejaz

In 1906 Ali married Nafissa Khanum daughter of H.H. Emir Abdullah bin Muhammad Pasha Grand Sharif and Emir of Mecca at Yeniköy, Bosphorus.

Andreas Embirikos

The first is "The hidden necrophilia in the works of Edgar Allan Poe"; the second, "Nikos Engonopoulos or the miracle of Elbassan and Bosphorus".

Antonio de Zayas

As a diplomat he lived for some time in Istanbul, a city to which he devoted the memoirs A orillas del Bósforo, Estocolmo, San Petersburgo, Bucarest, Berlín y México (On the banks of the Bosphorus, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Bucharest, Berlin and Mexico).

Beşiktaş

By now Beşiktaş was an established Bosphorus crossing for caravans trading across Anatolia and along the Silk Road, and of course for the great Ottoman armies.

Blue Rocks

The Symplegades or Cyanean Rocks, at the Black Sea outlet of the Bosphorus

Galata Tower

According to the Seyahatname of Ottoman historian and traveller Evliya Çelebi, in circa 1630-1632, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew as an early intercontinental aviator using artificial wings for gliding from this tower over the Bosphorus to the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side, nearly six kilometres away.

George Biddlecombe

When attached to the Talbot, 1838–42, he surveyed numerous anchorages on the Ionian station, in the Archipelago, and up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus; examined the south shore of the Black Sea as far as Trabzon, as well as the port of Varna, and prepared a survey, published by the admiralty, of the bays and banks of Akko.

HMS E11

Caught in the strong Bosphorus current, E11 was out of control for 20 minutes until she settled on the bottom near the Maiden's Tower.

Marmaray

Hyundai Rotem announced on November 11, 2008, that it had signed a €580 million contract to supply the rolling stock for the Marmaray cross-Bosphorus tunnel project in Istanbul.

Yavuz Sultan Selim

Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the "Third Bosphorus Bridge" in Istanbul, Turkey under construction


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