Gulf of Venice

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The usual modern limits of the Gulf of Venice

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Etymology

Calque of Italian Golfo di Venetia, from consideration of the sea as a gulf of the Mediterranean and the previous importance of the Republic of Venice to its trade and major ports.

Proper noun

Gulf of Venice

  1. (archaic) Synonym of Adriatic Sea.
  2. (informal) A wide gulf at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, bound on the south by the line between Maestra Point in the Po delta and Cape Kamenjak on the Istrian Peninsula.

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