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The Definition of the word Adria

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.


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