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Adria - (Acts 27:27; R.V., "the sea of Adria"), the Adriatic Sea,
including in Paul's time the whole of the Mediterranean lying
between Crete and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the
Mare Superum of the Romans, as distinguished from the Mare
Inferum or Tyrrhenian Sea.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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