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Author: Common crawl
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German[de]
Das Wort Bosporus kann auch die Meerenge zwischen der Krim und dem Mündungsgebiet des Don ( Tanais ) meinen (heute die Straße von Kertsch ).
English[en]
As the narrowest point of passage between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Bosphorus has always been of great commercial and strategic importance. The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC , which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia , therefore maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium .