Gaps of the Gods: The Bosporus & Dardanelles Straits

Made from local clay and dates 3500 BC. Made with local clay and date about 3500BC : Vasıf Şahoğlu, “’Cycladic Frying Pans’ from Bakla Tepe”, A. Erkanal et al. (eds.) Studies in Honor of Hayat Erkanal: Cultural Reflections, 689-696, İstanbul 2006.

Dardanelles is related to the word Brussels . Dardanelles is a compound word from Dardanos and Elle .

Bosporus is a language word from ΒΟΥΣ bous =bull + ΠΟΡΟΣ poros = crossing , in the dialects for bull ΒΟΥΣ : bull english , wół poland ,vol bosnia , вол bulgaria , boi galicia ,bœuf france ,bovo esperando , buey spain , bue italy ,bou katalan , boe korsican ,bèf creol aiti , vol croatia ,bovis latin , вол brussia , बैल ,bawngpa mizo ,os holand ,віл ykraine ,بیل ,ਬਲਦ , boi portugal ,bou rumania , russia , povi ,baka sempuano ,poo sepenti , вол serbia , vôl slovakia slovenia ,vůl τσεχια , source google translate ,

They are Greek, always have been. Just because the turns came from the steppe to kill and pillage doesn't give them any right to the hand they stole.

Unfortunately, there are some mistakes in your text. The name Istanbul is just a shorter form of Konstantinoupoli or Konstantiniyye and during the Ottoman period this name (nickname) of the city was never used officially. The names Asitane, Konstantiniyye, Dersaadet ( The Gate of the Empire) were used during the Ottoman period. The official use of the name Istanbul is quite a modern thing. Besides, the city Byzantion did not start as a Greek city, there was already a thousands of year old Thracian city there before it was colonised by the Greeks. This name root Byza is very common in location names in Thrace, which make scholars suggest that it could be the name of an important Thracian king before the arrival of the Greeks to the territory.

It was 15 million in 2015, it's over 23 million in 2023. The population is higher than Moscow.

The modern city of Istanbul has grown a lot just in the last twenty years. The old city districts of the Golden Horn, Galata, and others are quite small in comparison. Living here you can see the population and construction growth every day

I don't know why the Ottomans want to rename things. The name is Hellespont. And the city is Constantinople.

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Earthquakes, huh?

Turkish gays when

not "gaps" ... gates... nodes and gates... gates of troy, devils gate, gate of the (bosporus) rock, dover gate

Do sunda strait and the Messina strait

Good research 👍

One other thing to mention about Troy/Ilion/Wiusiya: in ancient times, all the farmland now northeast of Hisarlik wasn’t there. Instead, Troy was on the shore of a large and sheltered bay. That made it even more ideally positioned for controlling trade through, across, and out of the straits!

This is a very good short overview video. Though if I shall be pedantic, they did not change the name of constatinople officially until the time of Ataturk and the city was refered to as Constantinople القسطنطينية al-qusTanTiiniiya in official Ottoman documents.

Next video: Voyager's Flyby of Jupiter and Saturn

This channel is criminally underrated

Eurasia and the North & South American super continents really are just two big ass continents. Antarctica and Australia are the only truly separate continents.

During the height of ice age glaciation, both the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea are cut off from the ocean.

crazy coincidence that the particular faultlines you're talking about in the geology part of this video are the ones that were involved in the earthquake in Turkiye the 6th of february

really loving your content, thanks

Very interesting, but do they have good looking women with little to no moral values?

Name change happened in republic era . It was called Konstantiniye in Turkish . Simply turkish version of Constantinople . Ataturk made a clear line between imperial past and new republic so city names are changed which were more common in public and relocated capital as Ankara .So name change in 1453 is a myth.

We should reconquer Constantinople and Anatolia. It is in terrible need of freedom and democracy.

Don’t you mean the Byzantine straits. Constantinople belongs to the Greeks!!

Tbf to the Soviets their carriers also had a ton of missiles so they weren't really like your normal carriers.

Fell in love with your content. I also really appreciate the people in the comments that add more to the video

Hisarlik has been proven to be Troy!

Easy subscribe from me, great video.

I think you mean the BYZANTINE Straights

Constantinople was kept as Konstantiniyye under the Ottoman Empire only changing to Istanbul in the 1900s

Um ya mama

a beautiful place, too bad infested with roaches

I can't get over how small this channel is in comparison to its quality, this is beyond many modern documentaries, you get to the point quickly whilst also being entertaining, and cover topics that aren't often covered. This was fascinating, keep it up!

Another quality upload. Looking forward to watch the next video.😃😃

Didn’t Napoleon say something to the effect of Constantinople being a natural capital if the entire world were a single state

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description actually cites sources, and a decent amount of them too

aight guess i'm subscribing

Umm... we know Troy was real lol.

I love the style of your vids

i remember seeing in a documentary a few years ago that tectonic activity split the bosphorus as well, so thats another posibility

Être fort comme un Turc (‘to be strong like a turk’):
This expression originates in the 15th century when the Turks had a reputation for being strong, almost unbeatable warriors due to their numerous victories. At the time, the Ottoman Empire ruled large parts of south-east Europe, north Africa and western Asia. It is said that François I, King of France, was gifted Turkish armour by Suleiman the Magnificent (the tenth and most famous sultan of the Ottoman Empire) during their alliance. When he wore it, he is said to have exclaimed: “Here I am now, strong as a Turk!”.

I love history and your video's are always very enlightening. Thanks

Good thing it’s a international zone now

Turks indeed had a decisive role in triggering historical major events like the Migration Period, Crusades, Age of Discovery as well as ending the Middle Ages with the conquest of Constantinople, fall of the Roman Empire.

I was hoping for this video, litterily yesterday i thought about it