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# Bosporus

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Bosporus (Bogazici) is a strait, which separates the European part of Istanbul from the Asian part by uniting the Marmara Sea with the Black Sea. There are two bridges across the strait: Bogazici (Bosporus I) Bridge (1,074 m; completed in 1973) and the Fatih Sultan Mehmed (Bosporus II) Bridge (1,090 m, completed in 1988). Having a strategic importance for the defense of Istanbul, Ottoman sultans have constructed two castles on both sides of the strait (Anadoluhisari, Rumelihisari).

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