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Ionian Sea

noun
1.
An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy.





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"Ionian Sea" Quotes from Famous Books



... the distance of the Ionian Sea, far away as the dream from which one has waked, touched with a dream's mystic remoteness. The great plain, stretching to mountains and sea, vast and green and lonely—but with the loneliness that smiles, desiring nothing ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... not strange Camidius, That from Tarientum, and Brandusium, He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea, And take in Troine. You haue heard on't (Sweet?) Cleo. Celerity is neuer more ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... permanent crops 4%; meadows and pastures 15%; forest and woodland 38%; other 22%; includes irrigated 1% Environment: subject to destructive earthquakes; tsunami occur along southwestern coast Note: strategic location along Strait of Otranto (links Adriatic Sea to Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea) ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Ionian Sea" :   sea, Gulf of Corinth, Gulf of Lepanto, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean


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