| Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. |
| There are parchments of painstaking calligraphy, replete with fabulous swirls and curlicues, and magic carpets wider than the Bosphorus. |
| Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith. |
| His corpse, which was subsequently dumped in the Bosphorus, had a fatwa pinned to it. |
| Whoever possesses the Bosphorus, propontis, and Archipelago, must become a maritime nation in spite of treaties. |
| I have seen it on Greek vases, and among the sailors of the Cyclades and on the Bosphorus. |
