Crossword clues for adriatic
adriatic
- I dart about in a mostly freezing stretch of water
- Describing maritime communities having a medic, oddly inapt, in charge
- Arm of the Mediterranean
- Sea between Italy and the Balkans
- SS ___, onetime flagship of the White Star Line
- Sea to the east of Italy
- Sea between Italy and Albania
- Sea along the Balkan peninsula
- Border of the Balkans
- An arm of the Mediterranean, about 500 miles long
- Albania's sea
- Croatia's sea
- The Strait of Otranto connects to it
- Montenegro's locale
- Croatia is on it
- An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
- Mediterranean sea arm
- Expanse west of Albania
- Sea seen from Bari
- Sea facing Venice
- Sea east of Italy
- Sea between the Balkans and Italy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adriatic \A`dri*at"ic\, n.[L. Adriaticus, Hadriaticus, fr. Adria or Hadria, a town of the Veneti.] An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west a. Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sea east of Italy, from Latin Adriaticus, from town of Atria (modern Atri) in Picenum, once a seaport but now more than 12 miles inland. The name is perhaps from atra, neuter of atrum "black," hence "the black city;" or else it represents Illyrian adur "water, sea."
Wikipedia
The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea.
Adriatic may also refer to:
Usage examples of "adriatic".
The Adriatic boundary between Italy and Italian Gaul had been the Metaurus River, but when Sulla incorporated the ager Gallicus into Italy proper, he moved the boundary north to the Rubicon.
An exquisite island, the gem of the Adriatic, hilly and lush, a place of dreamy inlets and translucent, glowing seas.
Antony worked as a senior legate for Caesar, commanding the embarkation in Brundisium and then in the field in Macedonia and Greece, Dolabella commanded a fleet in the Adriatic and was defeated so ignominiously that Caesar never bothered with him again.
Macedonia, Antony sent the Legio Martia and two others up the Adriatic coast of the peninsula toward Italian Gaul.
Octavian learned that Antony had changed his mind about driving for Rome through Campania and turned to follow his first three legions up the Adriatic coast to Italian Gaul and Decimus Brutus, he decided to march on Rome.
The Legio Martia had declared for Octavian, had turned off the Adriatic road and was heading for Rome on the Via Valeria, thinking that Octavian was still in Rome.
Firmum Picenum promised money, the Marrucini of northern Adriatic Samnium threatened to strip Marrucine objectors of their property, and hundreds of rich Italian knights subsidized the equipping of troops.
Antony might do when he found out that his brother was dead, Brutus put some of his legions into camp along the river Granicus in Bithynia, and ordered the rest to march back into the west as far as Thessalonica while he himself raced ahead to see exactly what was happening on the Adriatic coast of Macedonia.
Our Sea, so he was going to take himself and his sixty galleys off to the Adriatic around Brundisium.
Decidius Saxa and Gaius Norbanus Flaccus had already taken eight of the twenty-eight legions across the Adriatic to Apollonia, under orders to march east on the Via Egnatia until they found an impregnable bolt-hole in which they could sit and wait for the bulk of the army to catch them up.
When Brutus and Cassius marched west on the same road, they had to be halted well east of the Adriatic, and a formidably entrenched force eight legions strong would bring them to an abrupt stop, no matter how enormous their own army was.
Ahenobarbus have the Adriatic closed and Brundisium under blockade, so it will be Patiscus, Parmensis and Turullius in charge of maritime operations around Neapolis.
Marcus Junius Brutus sank like the heavy stone it was, down, down, down, to lie forever on the muddy bottom of the Adriatic Sea somewhere between Dyrrachium and Ancona.
The wild and mountainous lands on the eastern side of the upper Adriatic Sea.
It bordered the Adriatic, with Umbria to its north and Samnium to its south.