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The Black Sea
Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, together with Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, have one thing in common that unites them in an inexorable way: the Black Sea. All these countries are washed by the waters, whose salinity is quite low, although it is an inland sea, so swimming here is a real pleasure.
This sea separates Europe and Asia with a natural boundary and is connected to other seas by various narrow, so the Bosphorus connects the Sea of ??Marmara, the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea and the Kerch Strait and the sea of Azov.
Its geostrategic importance has been reported throughout history and is, and for the Greeks, the “Pontus”, linking it to other civilizations by sea and their control was important to win peace.
With an area of ??436,400 square kilometers, a maximum depth of just over 2,200 meters and a maximum length from east to west of 1,175 kilometers, have plied these waters for fishing boats for centuries, but has also been used for war and today, even small cruisers are made here. Read the rest of this entry »