TYRRHENIAN SEA

tĭrēˈnēən, Ital. Tirreno, part of the Mediterranean Sea, c.475 mi (760 km) long and from 60 to 300 mi (97–483 km) wide, between the Ligurian Sea, the Italian peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The Strait of Messina connects it with the Ionian Sea. The sea is named for the Tyrrhenoi (an ancient name for the Etruscans). Naples and Palermo are the chief ports.

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books on: Tyrrhenian Sea  - 433 results

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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783
Book by A. T. Mahan; Little, Brown, 1918
Subjects: Naval History, Sea-Power
...the passage; but the sea route was the shorter...war, Rome, by her sea power, controlled...Spain, known as the Tyrrhenian and Sardinian Seas. The sea- coast from the Ebro...ceased to control the Tyrrhenian Sea, for her squadrons...
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Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas
Book by Milan N. Vego; Frank Cass, 1999
Subjects: Coast Defenses, Naval Strategy, Naval Tactics, Sea Control
...Russias strategic position at sea in the war with Japan in 1904...intervening landmass and the sea communications through the Korea...for this was control of the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea...Sardinia and Sicily almost made the Tyrrhenian Sea an enclosed sea. Although...
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The Law of the Sea: An Historical Analysis of the 1982 Treaty and Its Rejection by the United States
Book by James B. Morell; McFarland, 1992
Subjects: Marine Mineral Resources--Law And Legislation, Maritime Law, Ocean Bottom--Law And Legislation, United Nations Conference On The Law Of The Sea, United States--Foreign Relations--1981-1989
...by Pisa and Tuscany in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Newton, "Inexhaustibility...were required to police their seas against pirates. Margolis...shipping traffic in the Baltic Sea. See Newton, "Inexhaustibility...acknowledged English dominion in the sea. Selden, p. 398. Significantly...sovereignty in the "British Seas," was challenged by the French...
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The Development of Integrated Sea-Use Management
Book by Hance D. Smith, Adalberto Vallega; Routledge, 1991
...levels and b more marked in the Tyrrhenian Sea than in the peri-African...increased industrial use of the sea. It is the only Mediterranean...other European semi-enclosed seas. 4 Eastern Mediterranean includes...problems Gulf of Sirte, Aegean Sea . 5 Peripheral seas Sea of Marmara and Black Sea...
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Seas, Maps, and Men: An Atlas-History of Man's Exploration of the Oceans
Book by G. E.R. Deacon; Doubleday, 1962
Subjects: Ocean
...39 Tasman Basin, 180 ; ... Sea, 7 , 180 Tasmania, 40 , 43...192 Telo, 138 Temperature of sea; Atlantic Ocean at 4,000...138 Thermal energy, from the sea, 240 Thermometers, pressure...131 , 139 , 150 -3, 159 Tyrrhenian Sea, 138 Ulladulla Trough...
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journal articles on: Tyrrhenian Sea  - 41 results

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Pattern of Orogenic Rotations in Central-eastern Sicily: Implications for the Timing of Spreading in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Journal article by Fabio Speranza, Rosanna Maniscalco, Mario Grasso; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 160, 2003
Subjects: Geography, Geological time, Oceans, Plate tectonics, Sicily, Tyrrhenian Sea
...the Timing of Spreading in the Tyrrhenian Sea by Fabio Speranza , Rosanna Maniscalco...simultaneous incipient rifting of the Tyrrhenian Sea. In this paper we show that palaeomagnetism...link with the spreading of the Tyrrhenian Sea, developing at the rear of the...
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Pliocene Crustal Shortening on the Tyrrhenian Side of the Northern Apennines: Evidence from the Gavorrano Antiform (Southern Tuscany, Italy)
Journal article by Giovanni Musumeci, Francesco Mazzarini, Marco Barsella; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 165, 2008
Subjects: Basins, Geology, Plate tectonics, Tyrrhenian Sea
...al. 2004; Platt 2007). The Tyrrhenian Sea at the rear of the Apennine chain...Argentario promontory; the northern Tyrrhenian Sea borders the area to the west...regime extending from the northern Tyrrhenian Sea to the inner northern Apennines...
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Extensional Detachment Faulting on the Tyrrhenian Margin of the Southern Apennines Contractional Belt (Italy)
Journal article by E. Casciello, M. Cesarano, G. Pappone; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 163, 2006
Subjects: Apennines, Basin geometry, Basins, Fracture zones, Geophysics, Kinematics, Mapping, Plate tectonics, Rock deformation, Tyrrhenian Sea
...northern portion of the Tyrrhenian Sea, including eastern Corsica...younger portion of the Tyrrhenian basin (Fig. 13). According to deep-sea investigations the opening...downthrown towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. Both normal (dip...
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The Possible Role of Extensional Faults in Localizing Magmatic Activity: a Crustal Model for the Campanian Volcanic Zone (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)
Journal article by A. Milia, M. M. Torrente; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 168, 2011
Subjects: Geology, Magma, Plate tectonics, Studies
...Campanian Volcanic Zone (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) by A. Milia , M. M. Torrente...volcanological framework The Tyrrhenian Sea is a Neogene back-arc basin formed...successions deposited during a lowering of sea level. We correlate the younger of...
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Metaphor and Metonymy, Color and Space, in Lawrence's 'Sea and Sardinia.'
Journal article by Jack F. Stewart; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41, 1995
Subjects: Language and languages--Style, Lawrence, D.H.--Works, Sea and Sardinia (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Travel--Literature
...with dawn and sunset in the Tyrrhenian as dramatic unfoldings: "We felt this sunset in the African sea terrible and dramatic. It seemed...musings on voyages to the South Seas are reflected in visual images...naked aborigines of the South Seas. They have the naked suavity...colour of unclothed savages" (Sea 100). Lawrence had not yet...
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Operation Shingle--the Back Door Road to Rome!
Magazine article by Rod Redman; Sea Classics, Vol. 32, March 1999
...almost midway up the Italian boot from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Seas. Repeated attempts to cross the Rapido River were thwarted...the stalwart Nazi front the Allies planned an invasion by sea at Anzio that would bypass and hopefully trap the German armies...
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Life in Italy
Magazine article by Heike Hasensauer; Soldiers, Vol. 52, October 1997
Subjects: Americans abroad, Education, Livorno Italy, Military personnel, Military training, Social life & customs, Vicenza Italy
...postcard world. Located between two seas and surrounded by the Italian Alps...Community, is a few miles from Pisa and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The renowned Tuscany region is a nature...produce Italys famed Chianti wines. Up the Tyrrhenian coast is a breathtakingly beautiful place...
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Dutch Italianisers at Dulwich
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 281, August 2002
Subjects: Italy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Landscape painting--Exhibitions, Painting, Dutch--Exhibitions
...and Scheveningen as if it was on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Whilst doing so, they passed on...curling into a distant and indistinct sea. At guileless rest, a donkey contemplates...doggishly amazed to see a fire in the sea beneath its paws. The Crabfishers...
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Fun in the Sun
Magazine article by Heike Hasenauer; Soldiers, Vol. 52, November 1997
Subjects: Beaches, Camp Darby, Italy, Military bases
...Beach in Tirrenia, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, boasts some of the most beautiful...Appenine Mountains, day-long deep-sea fishing excursions and instructional...24room recreational lodge called "Sea Pines." Rooms with one double and...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Magazine article by Frances Richard; Artforum International, Vol. 36, September 1997
Subjects: Photographs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sugimoto, Hiroshi--Works
...were foggy dayscapes, with sky and sea merged atmospherically, the horizons...were epitomized in the triptych, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mount Polo, 1993, in which each...resonate. Strait, gulf, bay, ocean, sea, cape, island. Atami, Japan...
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La Dolce Vita; Italian Hotels Serve Grace, Top Food to Guests Who like the Good Things
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 27, 2006
Subjects: Food, Hotels and motels--Italy
...parallels much of Via Aurelia near the Tyrrhenian coast. La Posta Vecchia and Il Pellicano are on the Tyrrhenian Sea part of the Mediterranean so called...of La Posta Vecchia beside the Tyrrhenian Sea is a favorite spot for lunch...
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THE MAGIC of ISCHIA; Italian Island Known for Thermal Waters, Gorgeous Scenery
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2007
Subjects: Resorts
...volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea but near the Gulf of...local landmark is the seas 30-foot rock outcropping...132 rooms overlook the sea, where small fishing...anchor just beyond the sea wall. Streetside, amid...the Bay of Citara and Tyrrhenian Sea. The site offers...
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Tuscany with a Twist; Bess Manson Leaves the Noisy City Behind to Discover What's New - and Old - in Tuscany
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), June 5, 2011
Subjects: Resorts
...our way up the gentle hi of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Tuscany. Instead of terracotta...escaped to this Tuscany-by-the-Sea in break from filming Cleopatra...of Maremma, which overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea and Tuscan Archipelago or to...
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TUSCAN TREASURES; Bess Manson on What's Bess Manson on What's New - and Old - in This New - and Old - in This Stunning Corner of Italy Stunning Corner of Italy
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 27, 2011
Subjects: Resorts
...the gentle hill rising out of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Tuscany. Instead of terracotta...escaped to this Tuscany-by-the-Sea in 1962 on a break from filming...of Maremma, which overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea and Tuscan Archipelago or to...
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So Spa, So Good; Bess Manson Leaves the Noisy City Behind to Discover What's New - and Old - in Tuscany
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 3, 2011
...the gentle hill rising out of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Tuscany. Instead of terracotta...a golf course that looks out to sea, the hotel cascades down a gentle...of Maremma, which overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea and Tuscan Archipelago or to...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tyrrhenian Sea  - 42 results

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Tyrrhenian Sea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TYRRHENIAN SEA tire ne n, Ital. Tirreno, part of the Mediterranean Sea, c.475 mi (760 km) long and from 60 to 300 mi (97 483 km) wide, between the Ligurian Sea, the Italian peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica...
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Mediterranean Sea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus; and with the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. Its chief divisions are the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean seas; its chief islands are Sicily...in several sections of the sea. The overuse of the seas natural and marine resources...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...borders on France in the northwest, the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Ionian Sea in the south, the...lying land along the Adriatic coast and parts of the Tyrrhenian coast. In addition to Rome, other important cities...
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Lucania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...north by Samnium and Campania, on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the south by Bruttium. Italic tribes and...the Gulf of Tarentum and Paestum and Buxentum on the Tyrrhenian coast. The non-Greek Lucanians were Samnites. The...
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Rome , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...between the Apennine Mts. and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Called the Eternal City, it is...international traffic by road, rail, sea (at the port of Civitavecchia...port now blocked by silt, to the sea at Lido di Roma. The narrow and busy...
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