Saronic Gulf
Americannoun
noun
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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
Honey-famed Hymettus, gray and patient, stretches toward the sea—toward the shining Saronic Gulf and the bay of Phalerum.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
It had but one considerable city, Corinth, which had two ports,—one on the Corinthian Gulf, Lechoeum, and the other on the Saronic Gulf, Cenchreae.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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