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Definition of Marmara
1. Noun. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles.
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Literary usage of Marmara
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1. The Question of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles by Coleman Phillipson (1917)
"The Grand Duke Nicholas, however, informed the Porte that as the rule of the
Straits was violated by the admission of English cruisers to the Sea of Marmara ..."
2. Turkey by Heike Brockmann (1998)
"Without the connection Preceding pages: Fishermen from the sea of Marmara inspect
their nets before work. THRACE SEA OF Marmara NORTHERN AEGEAN EDIRNE ..."
3. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea by Adolphus Slade (1833)
"Syra—Scio—Tenedos—Hellespont—Marmara—Stamboul. SYRA was in the second year of
her liberty, and already began to regret it, for the tribute imposed by the ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Marmara, Set of. See MARMORA. MARMAROS, a NE county of Hungary, bordering on
Galicia, Bukowina, and Transylvania, and the counties of Bereg, Ugocsa, ..."
5. Report by Red Cross, American National Red Cross, 1896 Relief Expedition to Asia Minor, U. S (1896)
"Marmara. It was twenty and a hundred years, oh blue and rolling sea, A thousand
in the onward march of human liberty, Since on its sunlit bosom, ..."
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