Bosporus

bosporus

1. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
• 1867, The new American cyclopaedia (volume 5, page 53)It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer...