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(archaic) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea..
It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]
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Bosporus means (archaic) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea..
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It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]
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