found: Work cat.: Bobroff, Ronald. Roads to glory : late imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits, c2006:p. 1 (a central question in pre-World War I European international relations concerned control of the Turkish Straits; the Bosporus and the Dardanelles connect the Mediterranean with the Black Sea)
found: Rozakis, Christos L. Turkish Straits, 1987:p. 1 (The Turkish Straits include the Dardanelles, which links the Aegean Sea in the NE part of the Mediterranean basin to the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus, which links the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. The total navigable length of the straits from Cape Hellas, at the entrance of the Dardanelles from the Aegean Sea to Cape Rumili, at the exit of the Bosporus to the Black Sea, is about 160 miles)
found: Merriam-Webster geographic dictionary, 3rd ed.(Straits, The: 2. the link between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea includes the Bosporus and the Dardanelles; name applied following Russian expansion to the Black Sea, when The Straits Question became problem in European diplomacy)
found: Maritime Traffic Regulations for the Turkish Straits and the Marmara Region (1998), via WWW, April 22, 2006:regulation 2b (Turkish Straits means the navigable waters of Marmara Sea, Istanbul and Canakkale Straits, and the coastline surrounding these areas)
found: Unlu, Nihan. The legal regime of the Turkish Straits, 2002:p. 1 (The Istanbul (Bosporus)and the Canakkale (Dardanelles) Straits connect the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and consequently to the Mediterranean)
found: The Turkish Straits and the Great Powers, from the Montreux Convention to the early Cold War, 1936-1947, 2003.
