Adriatic Sea (Gk. ὁ Ἀδρίας; Lat. Mare adriaticum or superum),
used as an alternative to ‘*Ionian Sea’ for the waters between the Balkan peninsula and Italy, and like ‘Ionian’, sometimes extended to include the sea east of Sicily. In neolithic times seafarers from the south settled around the gulf of Valona at the entrance to the Adriatic (... ...
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