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?The<\/strong> B<\/strong>osporus<\/strong> or Bosphorus <\/strong>is described by Wikipedia as “a narrow, natural\u00a0strait\u00a0and an internationally significant waterway located in northwestern\u00a0Turkey. It forms part of the continental\u00a0boundary between Asia and Europe, and divides \"\"<\/a>Turkey by separating\u00a0Anatolia\u00a0from\u00a0Thrace. It is the world’s narrowest strait used for\u00a0international navigation. The Bosporus connects the\u00a0Black Sea\u00a0with the\u00a0Sea of Marmara, and, by extension via the\u00a0Dardanelles, the\u00a0Aegean\u00a0and\u00a0Mediterranean\u00a0seas, and by the\u00a0Kerch Strait, the\u00a0Sea of Azov.”<\/em><\/p>\n

A number of modern commentators have promoted the Bosporus as the location of the Pillars of Herakles<\/a>; Eberhard Zangger<\/a>, Christian and Siegfried Schoppe<\/a> and Werner E. Friedrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arysio dos Santos<\/a> in his book Atlantis<\/em> [320<\/a>.186]<\/sup> noted that “The Bosphorus was considered to be the site of the ‘Pillars of Hercules’ even before the name of these famous features was transplanted to the region of Gibraltar, where it remains stuck down to the present time. In reality, bosporus or bosphorus (or bosporos or bosphoros, rather, the Greek words from which the Latin name derives) means ‘cattle passage, oxford’ precisely because Hercules was said to have crossed there with the cattle he rustled from Geryon, in Erytheia.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

?The Bosporus or Bosphorus is described by Wikipedia as “a narrow, natural\u00a0strait\u00a0and an internationally significant waterway located in northwestern\u00a0Turkey. It forms part of the continental\u00a0boundary between Asia and Europe, and divides Turkey by separating\u00a0Anatolia\u00a0from\u00a0Thrace. It is the world’s narrowest strait used for\u00a0international navigation. The Bosporus connects the\u00a0Black Sea\u00a0with the\u00a0Sea of Marmara, and, by extension via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1487,3820,2094,4051,1392,3150,113,4193,2064,4591,1023,7299,23,1951,4526,669,3444],"class_list":["post-55032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anatolia","tag-arysio-dos-santos","tag-asia","tag-bosporus","tag-christian-siegfried-schoppe","tag-dardanelles","tag-eberhard-zangger","tag-erytheia","tag-europe","tag-geryon","tag-pillars-of-herakles","tag-posphorus","tag-sea-of-azov","tag-strait-of-kerch","tag-thrace","tag-turkey","tag-werner-e-friedrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55040,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions\/55040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}