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.
CC Flickr User Alun Salt. The abbreviation SPQR means, in English, the Senate and the Roman people (or the Senate and the people of Rome), but what exactly those four letters (S, P, Q, and R) stand for -- in Latin -- is a little less clear.My take is that SPQR stands for the first letters of the following words with -que added as the third:hat means it's the Roman people, but not the Roman senate. Many think the letters stand for Senatus PopulusQue Romanorum, which is what I thought until I realized that that would be redundant -- translating as it would as the senate and the people of the Roman people .