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Black Sea  

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  • The bosphorus and the Dardanelles, the narrow straits into the Black Sea, have long been the division between Europe and Asia. Istanbul, founded as Constantinople on these straits, has long been a rival with Rome and Jerusalem as the center of the world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Black Sea]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W0LGPPLM-J

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