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Definition of Gulf of Sidra
1. Noun. Wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulf Of Sidra
Literary usage of Gulf of Sidra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"The coast-lands, except at the bottom of the Gulf of Sidra, where the desert and
sea are conterminous, are here, as in the rest of N. Africa, ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"Though the Gulf of Sidra is enclosed by ... The region just noticed does not
reach the western shores of the Gulf of Sidra, being separated from it by a ..."
3. A Bird's-eye View of the World: A Popular Scientific Description of the by Onésime Reclus, Malvina Antoinettte Howe, Forrest Morgan, Charles Hopkins Clark (1892)
"Bengazi, the principal town, in reality a miserable village, is situated near
the rums of Berenice, on the Gulf of Sidra. Tripoli Proper. ..."
4. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"The elevated coastlands of Cyrenaica, which enclose the Gulf of Sidra ou the
east, and project northwards far into the Mediterranean, are thus cut off from ..."
5. A class book of modern geography by William Hughes (1885)
"The Gulf of Sidra was called by the ancients Syrtis major? and was dreaded by
them on account of its shallows and shifting sands. The Gulf of Kabes, ..."
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