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Adriatic Sea   /ˌeɪdriˈætɪk si/   Listen
Adriatic Sea

noun
1.
An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west.  Synonym: Adriatic.






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"Adriatic Sea" Quotes from Famous Books



... his position about Mantua in 1796. His front of operations here really extended from the mountains of Bergamo to the Adriatic Sea, while his real line of defense was upon the Adige, between Lake Garda and Legnago: afterward it was upon the Mincio, between Peschiera and Mantua, while his strategic front varied according to ...
— The Art of War • Baron Henri de Jomini

... days in Venice must rank that on which we took steamer to Lido, one of the narrow islands lying between the Adriatic Sea and the lagoon of Venice, which acts as a kind of natural breakwater to Venice. It was quite a treat to set foot on terra firma once more, for here we did find real land, and at least a horse and carriage to ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux

... the fastenings by which the different rafts were held together, the structure was at once destroyed, and the materials of which it was composed floated away, a mere mass of ruins, down the stream. From the Ticinus they floated, we may imagine, into the Po, and thence down the Po into the Adriatic Sea, where they drifted about upon the waste of waters till they were at last, one after another, driven by storms upon the ...
— Hannibal - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott



Words linked to "Adriatic Sea" :   Mediterranean, Gulf of Venice, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic, sea



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