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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



... interfere. Do we propose to abandon the temple for the law-court? Are we, whose office it is to sacrifice, and minister to the God, and receive his offerings,—are we to sit here debating whether certain cities on the other side of the Ionian sea are well or ill governed? Let other men's affairs be as they may, it is our business, as I take it, to know our own: our past history, our present situation, our best interests. We need not wait for Homer to inform us that we inhabit a land of crags, ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... valleys which composed his dominions were occupied by inhabitants who had been always in rebellion, and were never entirely conquered by the Turks, such as the Chimeriotes, the Sulliotes, and the nations living among the mountains adjacent to the coast of the Ionian Sea. Besides this, the woods and hills of every part of his dominions were in a great degree possessed by formidable bands of robbers, who, recruited and protected by the villages, and commanded by chiefs as brave and as enterprising as himself, laid extensive tracts under contribution, burning ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt


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


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