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    The island of Pantelleria lies in the middle of the strait. There are regular ferries between Sicily and Tunis across the Strait of Sicily; a tunnel has...
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    The Strait of Sicily Tunnel is a proposed megaproject to link Sicily and Tunisia. The distance between the coastlines is about 155 kilometres (96 mi) and...
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  • of the strait varies from a maximum of approximately 16 km (9.9 miles) (between Capo d'Alì in Sicily and Punta Pellaro in Calabria) to a minimum of approximately...
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    The Strait of Messina (Italian: Stretto di Messina; Sicilian: Strittu di Missina) is a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily (Punta del Faro)...
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    Passage across the Strait of Sicily was suggested by Alimen (1975) based on the 1973 discovery of Oldowan grade tools in Sicily. Radiometric dates, however...
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    Libyan Sea Gulf of Sidra Gulf of Gabès Strait of Sicily Gulf of Tunis Inland Sea, Gozo Sea of Sardinia Gulf of Asinara Black Sea Gulf of Burgas Karkinit...
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    has a coastline of 7,900 km (4,900 mi) on the Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, Sea of Sardinia and Strait of Sicily. The Italian geographical...
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    northeast of Sicily in the Aeolian Islands; and a cluster southwest of Sicily around the island of Pantelleria, in the Mediterranean's Strait of Sicily. Sardinia...
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  • Strait of Sicily Tunnel would link Sicily to Tunisia. Together with the proposed Strait of Messina Bridge from Sicily to Italy this would provide a fixed...
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    of Haifa, northern Israel the Gulf of Sidra, between Tripolitania (western Libya) and Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) the Strait of Sicily, between Sicily and...
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    Libyan Sea (redirect from Sea of Libya)
    Strait of Sicily. Asterousia Mountains Gulf of Sidra George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General...
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    Italy (geographical region) (category Regions of Europe)
    the Strait of Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Italian geographic region, in its traditional and most widely accepted extent, has an area of approximately...
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    Empedocles (volcano) (category Landforms of Sicily)
    Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia (Phlegraean Fields of the Strait of Sicily), Empedocles is composed of what was once believed to be separate volcanic centers...
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    comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 106 kilometres (55 nautical miles) southwest of Sicily and 68 km (35 nmi) east of the Tunisian...
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    "Ultra Sicily" (Siciliae ultra Pharum, Latin for "Sicily over the Strait") and "Hither Sicily" (Siciliae citra, commonly called "the Kingdom of Naples")...
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    1950s. Sicily and its surrounding small islands have some highly active volcanoes. This is due to Sicily being geographically on the northern edge of the...
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    Pelagie Islands (category Sicily geography stubs)
    of Pantelleria and the Strait of Sicily. All three islands are part of the comune of Lampedusa e Linosa. Geologically, part of the archipelago (Lampedusa...
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  • Metropolitan areas with a population of 1,000,000 or higher are sorted by population. Cities are ordered by their position on the Mediterranean, from west...
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    Orion (mythology) (category Children of Poseidon)
    was responsible for the present shape of the Strait of Sicily. Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving works of Greek literature, which probably date...
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  • Passage – between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago Strait of Sicily – between Sicily and Africa Singapore Strait – between Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)...
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    Aristaeomorpha foliacea (category Crustaceans of Brazil)
    operating on the continental slope in the Strait of Sicily where is pursued by boats from Tunisia, Malta and Sicily. it is also a quarry species off Venezuela...
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    The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces...
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    Sea through Sicily and the Noto submarine canyon offshore Avola; the spillover flood had a magnitude comparable to the flood in the Strait of Gibraltar...
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    Black stork (category Birds of Eurasia)
    broad expanses of the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east, the Strait of Sicily in the center, or the Strait of Gibraltar in the...
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    Melicertus kerathurus (category Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean)
    between 5m and 50m, although it has been taken at depths of up to 640m in the Strait of Sicily. They breed in the warmer months in inshore estuarine waters...
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    Carole Bouquet (category French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni)
    Maison Carole Bouquet, on the island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily since 2005. List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards "Carole Bouquet"...
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    in the Strait of Sicily and the type location for this rock. On Pantelleria the rock is usually found as a vitrophyre containing phenocrysts of anorthoclase...
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    Porto Empedocle (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    is a town and comune in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento. It was named after Empedocles,...
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    Reggio Calabria (category Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria)
    on the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula and is separated from the island of Sicily by the Strait of Messina. It is situated on the slopes of the Aspromonte...
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    The Emirate of Sicily or Fatimid Sicily (Arabic: إِمَارَة صِقِلِّيَة, romanized: ʾImārat Ṣiqilliya) was an Islamic kingdom that ruled the Muslim territories...
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