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Why it is known as Black Sea?

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I couldn't find a proper answer for this one, but i found at leats something that can help, from wikipedia.

The Black Sea got its name from the Ottoman Turks. 'Kara (Black)' denotes 'North' in Medieval Turkish, as in Kara Denizi- Kara Sea north of Siberian Yakut Turks, similar to Black Sea. In Turkish 'Red' denotes south as in Kizil Deniz, Red Sea to the south of Anatolia, while 'Ak'-White denotes west. The old name for the Aegean and the Mediterranean combined in Anatolian Turkish is "Akdeniz" -the White Sea-; although in contemporary Turkish, Akdeniz denotes only the Mediterranean Sea as now the northern part of the Mediterranean is called the Aegean Sea following its Western name. During the Ottoman times this was not the case as the Aegean was called the Sea of Islands -Adalar Denizi referring to the 12 islands laying between Greece and Anatolia.

The Black Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms - the others being the Red Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea.

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In general black means anything too salty.So the Black sea is said to have the most salt content in it and therefore it got it's name from an ancient proverb.The salt present in the sea is so huge that if a body is thrown in it, it starts floating.

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