Ionian Sea
Ionian Sea part of the Mediterranean Sea, S Europe, between Greece and S Italy. It is connected with the Adriatic Sea by the Strait of Otranto. The Gulf of Taranto and the Gulf of Corinth are its chief arms. The Ionian Islands lie in its eastern part. Kérkira and Pátrai (Greece) and Catania and Taranto (Italy) are the chief ports.
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Venetian rule and control of plague epidemics on the Ionian Islands during 17th and 18th centuries.(HISTORICAL REVIEW)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...taken by the Venetian administration to combat plague on the Ionian Islands. At that time, although the scientific basis of plague was...this city-state on the Adriatic Sea gained control of the Ionian Islands, Crete, and some coastal cities of mainland Greece and established...
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A Roman Empire cruise such as the Romans never had.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...from Napoleon and held it until 1863, when it presented the Ionian Islands to Greece as a coronation gift for King George I of Greece...teenage Danish prince instead, along with the gift of the Ionian Islands to make the substitute more palatable. Yet the British have...
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Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity and Power in the British Mediterranean.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Press, 2002. xv plus 252 pp. $40 cloth/$19 paper). Compared to the East and West Indies, the Middle East or Africa, the Ionian Islands occupy a relatively minor role in the historiography of British colonialism: the islands themselves are small, direct British...
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Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden: W.H. Fox Talbot's early experiments with photography at Lacock Abbey were in part prompted by his passion for botany, as Katie Fretwell explains.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Italy and the Alps, everywhere listing and describing plants. In 1826, he had made a major botanical trip to the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece--to Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia--setting up a herbarium of Ionian plants, which...
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The Greek monarchy in retrospect.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...empire-building in 1830, for Britain had, since 1814 (and in practical terms before that) control of a string of Greek islands, the Ionian islands, which had been erected into an experimental republic -- unusual for Britain! To this republic came the Lord High Commissioners...
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Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino.
Magazine article from: Hesperia; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Venetian Republic was to make substantial territorial gains in its overseas empire, which at one time had stretched from the Ionian islands in the west to Cyprus in the east. Venice's participation in the war against the Ottoman Empire waged by the Holy League...
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The Empire too, what does it mean to you?(Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/22/2007; ; 612 words
; ...he omits from his categorisation of colonies the white and civilised places acquired in the Mediterranean: Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, Malta and Cyprus. These were a special problem--should we be holding such places, at least as colonies? (They left behind...
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Ionian Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...890 sq mi (2,310 sq km), W Greece, in the Ionian Sea, along the coasts of Epirus and the Peloponnesus...the islands except Kérkira. In 1815 the Ionian Islands, known as the United States of the Ionian Islands, were placed under British protection...
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Mediterranean Sea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Gibraltar; with the Black Sea through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus; and with the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. Its...are the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean seas; its chief...Mediterranean into two main basins. The sea is of higher salinity than the...
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Adriatic Sea
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Adriatic Sea Shallow arm of the Mediterranean Sea, separated from the Ionian Sea by the Strait of Otranto, between Albania and the “heel” of Italy. Lobsters and sardines are the chief catches of local fisheries. Length: c. 800km (500mi). Max. depth: 1230m (4035ft).
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Tyrrhenian Sea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Ital. Tirreno, part of the Mediterranean Sea, c.475 mi (760 km) long and from 60 to 300 mi (97-483 km) wide, between the Ligurian Sea, the Italian peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia...Strait of Messina connects it with the Ionian Sea. The sea is named for the Tyrrhenoi (an ancient...
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Albania
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...Adriatic Sea and is also bordered by the Ionian Sea to the south. Seacoast and Undersea...connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea, borders Albania on the southwest...Vlor ë . The islands in the Ionian Sea off the south coast of Albania belong...
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