hellespont

English Thesaurus

1. the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	sound, strait,
definition	:	a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water (noun.object)

part meronym	:	republic of turkey, turkey,
definition	:	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 (noun.location)