Definition of Gulf of sidra

1. Noun. Wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya.

Generic synonyms: Gulf
Group relationships: Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulf Of Sidra

Gulf of Antalya
Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of California
Gulf of Carpenteria
Gulf of Corinth
Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Lepanto
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Ob
Gulf of Oman
Gulf of Riga
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Gulf of Siam
Gulf of Sidra
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf of Suez
Gulf of Tehuantepec
Gulf of Thailand
Gulf of Venice
Gulf stream
Gullah
Gulliver
Gulliverian
Gulls
Gullstrand
Gullstrand's slitlamp
Gulo
Gulo gulo

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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