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Saronic Gulf

American  
[suh-ron-ik] / səˈrɒn ɪk /

noun

  1. an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.


Saronic Gulf British  
/ səˈrɒnɪk /

noun

  1. Also called: Aegina.   Gulf of Aegina.  an inlet of the Aegean on the SE coast of Greece. Length: about 80 km (50 miles). Width: about 48 km (30 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I hiked one of the winding trails with a high-energy Greek Australian mathematician, admiring the view of Athens and the port of Piraeus, a pearly jumble on the glittering Saronic Gulf.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2014

Middle-class European tourists tend to come to the wider Saronic Gulf for its safe sailing.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2012

Some regions, like Greece's Saronic Gulf and the northern part of the Adriatic, were found to be hazardous, but others turned out to be relatively pure.

From Time Magazine Archive

A number of mountains came together to form an irregular rectangle with the Saronic Gulf upon the south.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns

Nature had provided her with what she needed, in the peninsula of Peiraeus, which juts out into the Saronic Gulf, about five miles south-west of the inland town.

From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

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