Gulf of Venice

Etymology
, from consideration of the sea as a gulf of the Mediterranean and the previous importance of the to its trade and major ports.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:
 * CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...
 * CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...