| Upon learning of the Lombard expedition, he set out almost at once, crossing the Bosporus on 24 June and setting out in pursuit. |
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| Saline and warm Mediterranean water flowing through the Bosporus Strait maintains a permanent pycnocline. |
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| Some 500,000 vessels a year pass through the treacherous, narrow Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. |
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| We enter a caique, where we take our seals in oriental fashion, and two rowers, dressed in grey-white, striped silk shirts and red fezzes, sped us up the Bosporus. |
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| Sailing on through the Bosporus, the expedition laid siege to Thessalonica in Macedonia. |
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| During the walk, ystanbul city lines ferryboat, who passed from the Bosporus at the moment, greeted the two leaders by the siren call. |
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| Located several miles north of Constantinople, it commanded the narrowest part of the Bosporus. |
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| The conference was cut short, however, when news reached Licinius that his rival Maximin had crossed the Bosporus and invaded European territory. |
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| A significant part of these raiders however did not return and crossed the Bosporus instead. |
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| The Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea. |
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| Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean. |
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