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The Black Sea, also called the Euxine Sea, is the eastern most extension of the Mediterranean Sea. It’s deepest depth in the south and east is 7364 feet deep, compared to the 400 foot depth of the northern shores. The Black Sea has many lagoons called lamans. Surprisingly, it has very few islands.

Bordering the Black Sea are Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, Turkey and Romania. The area of the Euxine Sea occupies about 950,000 square miles.

The Danube River from the western edge, has three channels. The main channel is between the Ukraine Soviet Socialists and Romania.

Despite a stormy winter, the Black Sea forms an important trade route, especially to the Soviet Socialist Republics. In the summer it is a popular resort area because it is in the sub-tropics area.

The Euxine Sea was formed late in Tertiary times by the fracture and subsidence of mountains which extended formerly from southeastern Europe. The coast line is generally rocky, except in the northwest and north, where it is low and sandy with many limans.

Few plants or animals exist below 300 feet because of the salinity and the pressure of hydrogen sulfide. The Black Sea has few fish, but, shallow water provide a little, but some, fishing grounds. Some of the fish caught in the Euxine Sea are herring, pike, mackerel, bream and perch.

The first recorded colonists that settled on the Black Sea were the Greeks. They shipped much grain so this means that they had rich soil. The next colonists on the sea were the Romans. The colony Genoese, made many trading routes to other colonies, in the Christian Era after the Barbarian invasion. Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries the Black Sea was dominated by the Turks.

Some of the Black Seas major ports are Trabzon in Turkey, Sevastopolin in the Soviet Union, Constanta in Romania and Varna in Bulgaria. From these ports are materials you may use every day.

Resources: The New Book of Knowledge, The American Peoples Encyclopedia, World Book, Compton’s Encyclopedia.