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unusual facts about Gulf of Corinth


Gulf of Corinth

The shipping routes between Athens and to the ports of the rest of the world including the Mediterranean ports pass along this gulf.


426 BC

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

Anticyra

name Antikyra; until the early 20th century it was called "Aspra Spitia", a name given after 1960 to a wholly new adjacent settlement, 3 km to the East; in Phocis, on the bay of Anticyra, in the Corinthian gulf; some remains are still visible.

Charadros

It is crossed by three bridges, the old and the new GR-8/E55 and the GR-5 and the GR-48 and above the Patras Bypass, it enters an urban area mixed with farmlands and passes under the OSE's SPAP line and the road before emptying into the Gulf of Corinth 1 km to the northwest.

Erineos

Erineos stretches between the northeastern slopes of the Panachaiko mountain and the Gulf of Corinth.

Longos, Achaea

The villages Longos and Selianitika (adjacent to the southeast) share a beautiful beach on the Gulf of Corinth which is approximately 1.5 km long.


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