what body of water separates europe from asia?

Answer 1

Amazing! This question has been up for two hours, with seven answers, and has mentioned the Bosporus and Dardanelles, which, together with the Sea of Marmara, separate Europe from Asia between the Aegean and Black Seas.

This waterway is historically important, as it figured in the Persian Wars (Herodotus), the Odyssey (Homer), the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the failed British Dardanelles campaign in WWI. Constantinople (now Istanbul), a keystone city for a millennium, is located along the shore in Turkey (part of the Balkan Peninsula). (The greater part of Turkey, in Asia Minor, is known as Anatolia.)

North of the Bosporus lies the Black Sea (ancient Pontus), another part of the Eurasian border. After the high Caucasus Mountains, the border passes through the Caspian Sea, thence up the ridge of the Urals, ending at Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic.

Although the Ural Mountains are the longest part of the Eurasian border, the Bosporus and Dardanelles are probably the most significant historically.

Answer 2

There is no body of water separating Europe & Asia. The Continent is actually referred to as 'Eurasia'.

Answer 3

If you are talking of the water body that separtes the 2 continents, then it is the black sea. The rest of europe and asia is connected by land and divided by the Ural mountains

Answer 4

There isn't one. They are one giant land mass. It doesn't really make any sense. It is more of an imaginary line that runs from the western edge of Turkey up towards Finland.

Answer 5

None. The Ural moutains are usually taken as the dividing line.

Answer 6

The Caspian Sea.

Answer 7

Geologically, Eurasia is one continent.

Answer 8

not exactly
but the caspian sea does separate it for a long distance

Answer 9

None, ask any Russian or Chinese.