The Dardanelles in north-western Turkey connect the Aegean Sea to which other sea?
Aegean Sea Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ( or ; "Aigaío Pélagos" ; ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes. The sea was traditionally known as "the Archipelago" (in Ancient Greek, , meaning "chief sea"), but in English the meaning of Archipelago has changed to refer to
Aegean Sea the Northwest extreme thereof, thence to Cape Apolitares in Antikithera Island, through the island to Psira Rock (off the Northwest point) and across to Cape Trakhili in Kithera Island, through Kithera to the Northwest point (Cape Karavugia) and thence to Cape Santa Maria () in the Morea. <br><br>"In the Dardanelles." A line joining Kum Kale (26°11′E) and Cape Helles. Aegean surface water circulates in a counterclockwise gyre, with hypersaline Mediterranean water moving northward along the west coast of Turkey, before being displaced by less dense Black Sea outflow. The dense Mediterranean water sinks below the Black Sea inflow to a