They usually controlled only a small section of the Balkan Peninsula near Constantinople, the city itself, and some coastal lands on the Black Sea and around the Aegean Sea.

The Sea of Marmara (, ), also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as the Propontis (), is the inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey, that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's Asian and European parts.

This part of the sea is deep and dangerous.

It is located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea separating the Aegean from the Libyan Sea.

In winter, the temperature is almost constant with the depth in the northern part of the sea.

There were open patches of sea everywhere.

The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre.

The sea noticeably drops off towards the Middle Caspian, where the average depth is .

Since its peak in 2000 , M A activity has declined substantially , returning to levels comparable to those of the mid 1990s .

The other part is located near the sea, and concentrates most of the nightlife.

In 1848, these two vessels surveyed the northern part of the sea.

The Weddell Sea has been deemed by scientists to have the clearest water of any sea.

Most of the earthquakes and volcanoes are in the sea, at the bottom of the sea.

A series of trials were then conducted, first in the North Sea and then in the Baltic.

Habitat Loggerhead sea turtles spend most of their lives in the open ocean and in shallow coastal waters.

The Ligurian Sea ( ) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Italian Riviera (Liguria and Tuscany) and the island of Corsica.

Asian Nationalism at Sea

We swam in the sea.

I boldly jumped into the sea.

There are islands in the sea.

There are islands in the sea.

There were islands in the sea.

You see to sea to see all that you can see is sea

There's a story in the sea, in the waters of the sea, in the sediments and the rocks of the sea floor.

Fish live in the sea.

It is fun to swim in the sea.

The ship is at sea.

I went swimming in the sea.

The ship was at sea.

He went to sea to swim.

Many men died at sea.

Some children swim on the sea.

Atlantis sank into the sea.

She dived naked into the sea.

Many rivers flow into the sea.

Many rivers flow into the sea.

I drowned in the ocean.

She drowned in the ocean.

And if this happens, an inland sea would fill a good portion of the Mississippi Valley.

Down on the lower left there are Ruddy Turnstones and Sanderlings.

Nan Hai, the South Sea, was one of the Four Seas of Chinese literature.

The Kara Sea (, Karskoe More ) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.

Origins The legendary Amazons are believed to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the southern shore of the Euxine Sea (the Black Sea).

Major sea ports of Russia include Rostov on Don on the Azov Sea, Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, Astrakhan and Makhachkala on the Caspian, Kaliningrad and St Petersburg on the Baltic, Arkhangelsk on the White Sea, Murmansk on the Barents Sea, Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky and Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean.

It is bound to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, the west by Tunisia and Algeria, the southwest by Niger, the south by Chad and Sudan and to the east by Egypt.