Strait of Sicily
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Strait of Sicily — Coordinates: 37°12′N 11°12′E / 37.20°N 11.20°E / 37.20; 11.20 … Wikipedia
Strait of Messina Bridge — Satellite photo of the Strait of Messina, taken June 2002. NASA image. The Strait of Messina Bridge is a long planned suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, a narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip … Wikipedia
Sicily — Infobox Region of Italy name = Sicily fullname = it. Regione Autonoma Siciliana isocode = capital = Palermo status = Autonomous region governor = Raffaele Lombardo (MpA) zone = South Italy province = Agrigento Caltanissetta Catania Enna Messina… … Wikipedia
Strait of Messina — noun the strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy • Instance Hypernyms: ↑strait, ↑sound … Useful english dictionary
Sicily — • The largest island in the Mediterranean Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sicily Sicily † … Catholic encyclopedia
Strait of Messina — Satellite photo of the Strait of Messina with names. NASA image. The Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina in Italian, Strittu di Missina in Sicilian) is the narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the … Wikipedia
Sicily — Sicilian /si sil yeuhn, sil ee euhn/, adj., n. /sis euh lee/, n. an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean.… … Universalium
Sicily — Largest island in the Mediterranean (q.v.), separated from the Italian mainland by the Strait of Messina (q.v.). While Sicily linked Italy to Africa (qq.v.), it also divided the Mediterranean (q.v.) into eastern and western parts. Conquered by … Historical dictionary of Byzantium
SICILY — (3,285), the largest island in the Mediterranean, lying off the SW. extremity of Italy, to which it belongs, and from which it is separated by the narrow strait of Messina, 2 m. broad; the three extremities of its triangular configuration form … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Strait of Messina — n. strait that separates Sicily from the tip of Italy … English contemporary dictionary
