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CANAKKALE BOGAZI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Canakkale Bogazi mean?
• CANAKKALE BOGAZI (noun)
The noun CANAKKALE BOGAZI has 1 sense:
1. the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
Familiarity information: CANAKKALE BOGAZI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Canakkale Bogazi; Dardanelles; Hellespont
Instance hypernyms:
sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)
Holonyms ("Canakkale Bogazi" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
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