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Strait of Messina

noun

The strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy.

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... Cornwall's contract for a year's service with the Y expired and he asked for transportation to America. He made the trip across the sea from Tripoli to Syracuse, from Syracuse to Bologna by rail except across the strait of Messina, and then in a day or so to Genoa, where he took passage on ...

— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... founded the city of Neapolis (Naples), which in Roman times formed a home of Greek culture and even to-day possesses a large Greek population. To secure the approaches from Greece to these remote colonies, two strongholds were established on the strait of Messina: Regium (modern Reggio) on the Italian shore and Messana (modern Messina) on that of Sicily. Another important colony in southern ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

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