And yet few international travelers make the journey to, much less know anything about, Turkey’s Black Sea region, or Karadeniz. Editor’s Note — This CNN Travel series is, or was ...

The Black Sea has been both a breadbasket transit as well as a battleground for countries seeking influence over trade and transit.

They cannot leave the Black Sea due to Turkey's blockade of the Bosporus. On Friday, during a missile attack on Crimea, the Ukrainians sank the Russian submarine "Rostov-on-Don." It was one of ...