Adria – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Adria
Adria is a town and
comune in the
province of Rovigo in the
Veneto region of Northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers
Adige and
Po. The remains of the
Etruscan city of
Atria or
Hatria are to be found below the modern city, three to four metres below the current level. Adria and
Spina were the Etruscan
ports and depots for
Felsina (now Bologna). Adria may have given its name during an early period to the
Adriatic Sea, to which it was connected by channels.
Adria
n.
Adriatic Sea, sea between Italy and Yugoslavia
Adria
more properly A'drias, the Adriatic Sea. (Acts 27:27) The word seems to have been derived from the town of Adria, near the Po. In Paul's time it included the whole sea between Greece and Italy, reaching south from Crete to Sicily. See: Melita
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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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.
