Gulf of Venice

English thumb|right|250px|The usual modern limits of the Gulf of Venice Alternative forms en Gulph of Venice Etymology en it Golfo di Venetia, from consideration of the sea as a gulf of the Mediterranean and the previous importance of the Republic of Venice to its trade and major ports. Proper noun 1 Gulf of Venice en archaic en Adriatic Sea. 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... en informal en A wide <<gulf>> at the north end of the <<sea/Adriatic Sea>>, bound on the south by the line between Maestra Point in the Po delta and Cape Kamenjak on the Istrian Peninsula. Hyponyms en Gulf of Trieste Translations gulf Dutch: nl Golf van Venetië f French: fr golfe de Venise m German: de Golf von Venedig m Hungarian: hu Velencei-öböl Italian: it golfo di Venezia m Polish: pl Zatoka Wenecka f Spanish: es golfo de Venecia m