Bulgaria-Turkey Border - Black Sea (Paperback)

Chapters: Black Sea. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Black Sea - The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Black Sea as follows: On the Southwest. The Northeastern limit of the Sea of Marmara . In the Kertch Strait. A line joining Cape Takil and Cape Panaghia (45 02'N). Current names of the Sea are equivalents of the English name, "Black Sea," including Adyghe: , Greek Mavri Thalassa ( ), Bulgarian Cherno more ( ), Georgian Shavi zghva ( ), Laz Ucha Zua, or simply Zua 'Sea', Romanian Marea Neagr, Russian Chornoye more ( ), Turkish Karadeniz, Ukrainian Chorne more ( ), Ubykh . Such names have not yet been shown conclusively to predate the twelfth century, but there are indications that they may be considerably older. Sunset on the Black Sea at Laspi The estuary of the Veleka in the Black Sea. Longshore drift has deposited sediment along the shoreline which has led to the formation of a spit, Sinemorets, BulgariaThe Black Sea got its name from the Ottoman Turks.'Kara (Black)' denotes 'North' in Medieval Turkish, as in Kara Denizi- Kara Sea north of Siberian Yakut Turks, similar to Black Sea. In Turkish 'Red' denotes south as in Kizil Deniz, Red Sea to the south of Anatolia, while 'Ak'-White denotes west. The old name for the Aegean and the Mediterranean combined in Anatolian Turkish is "Akdeniz" -the White Sea-; although in contemporary Turkish, Akdeniz denotes only the Mediterranean Sea as now the northern part of the Mediterranean is called the Aegean Sea following its Western name. During the Ottoman times this was not the case as the Aegean was called the Sea of Islands -Adalar Denizi referring to the 12 islands laying between Greece and Anatolia. The Black Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3386