Europe >.<    Geographically, the border between Asia and Europe is the  Bosphorus, a strait of water that joins the Mediterranean Sea to  the Black Sea. This runs riâ¦ght through the city of Istanbul.  Therefore, both Istanbul and the whole nation of Turkey are both in  Asia and Europe.
Spir, or spiro, is Latin and is defined as to breathe, or is Greek and is defined as spiral. 1  An example of spir used as a prefix is in the word spirograph which means a chart regarding airflow. 2  An example of spir used as a prefix is in the word spirillum which means a bacteria with a twisted cell body.
Dictionaries refer to it being Low or High German, spire, spier, Middle English espyen to spy or Old French espier. In Gaelic it means someone who is inquisitive, the gaelic word, speir, also means an animal s hind leg joint or an ankle. In Scotland a spier rope is to do with boats. The name is common in Renfrewshire.pier is also of Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin. Some would have given themselves the name of their home town once the use of a surname became necessary. In Europe at War 1600-1650 p 92, one of Mansfield s men recorded that The bishopric of SPEIER is ours.