... , the straits -once popular fishing and swimming areas but now filthy and virtually dead- have been controlled by, among others, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottoman Turks. Later on, under the Treaty of Montreux, Turkey regained sovereignty over the waterway. ECONOMICAL STUDY: It's time for the economical importance of the straits to Turkey and other countries. All the maritime traffic ... and other industrial necessity production, consumption, import and exports. As a result of these increases, the maritime traffic increases to a high density and becomes a really big danger ...

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... being sure that what is being describe is indeed a Bronze Age civilization perhaps one that we know not of, or possibly one that we know under another name." (Bacon 30) How is this possible? How could the greatest civilization that ever was be mistaken or not known of? If one ... a geophysical shift would have left more evidence than has been found to this day. And, also, that what was supposedly Atlantis, now lies under thousands of feet of ice. Other theories about the destruction of Atlantis lack evidence of the cataclysmic events described by Plato. This is what makes the ... be use...

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