Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Areas of Istanbul' has mentioned 'Mediterranean' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Istanbul is located in north-western Turkey and straddles the straitxc2xa0Bosporus, which provides the only passage from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean via the Sea of Marmara. | WIKI |
| As Istanbul is only slightly rain shadowed from Mediterranean storms and is otherwise surrounded by water, it usually receives some amount of precipitation from both Western European and Mediterranean systems. | WIKI |
| The majority of the Catholic Levantines (Turkish: Levanten) in Istanbul and Izmir are the descendants of traders/colonists from the Italian maritime republics of the Mediterranean (especially Genoa and Venice) and France, who obtained special rights and privileges called the Capitulations from the Ottoman sultans in the 16th century. | WIKI |
| The Bosporus, providing the only passage from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, is the world's busiest and narrowest strait used for international navigation, with more than 200 million tons of oil passing through it each year. | WIKI |
| [216] International conventions guarantee passage between the Black and the Mediterranean seas,[217] even when tankers carry oil, LNG/LPG, chemicals, and other flammable or explosive materials as cargo. | WIKI |
| Strategically located on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul was successively the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire and has been associated with major events in political history, religious history and art history for more than 2,000 years. | UNESCO |