Ionian Sea
Speech parts
1. Ionian Sea - Noun
2. Ionian Sea - Proper noun
Meaning
an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
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Examples
After capturing Dyrrhachium and Phoenice,Teuta's forces extended their operations further southward into the Ionian Sea, defeating the combined Achaean and Aetolian fleet in the battle of Paxos and capturing the island of Corcyra.
Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, explained that he took the name from Signor Paparazzo, a character in George Gissing 's novel By the Ionian Sea (1901).
It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest.
ATHENS, Greece — Greece's coast guard said 12 migrants were found dead in the Ionian Sea and 21 others were rescued after their boat took on water and sank Saturday.
Matthew Pyke of Truro, N.S., one of the six Canadian Forces members who died after a Cyclone helicopter crashed in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Greece last week.
Greece may be able to secure a further discount or renegotiate the ‘take-or-pay’ part of the contract if Athens offers Russian companies oil assets or rights to explore oil and gas deposits in the Ionian Sea.