Bosphorus
The Bosphorus, or Bosporus with its historical name, is a strait and international waterway that separates the continents of Asia and Europe and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. The Bosphorus generally stretches in the northeast-southwest direction and divides the city of Istanbul into two as the European Side and the Anatolian Side. The residential area that spans both sides of the Bosphorus is called the Bosphorus. Bosphorus, which became an international waterway with the Straits Convention signed with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and came under the control of the Republic of Turkey with the Montreux Straits Convention signed in 1936, is called the Turkish Straits together with the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. considered as one of the natural boundaries separating
