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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian peninsula and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. The Strait of Messina connects it with the Ionian Sea.
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- proper noun A part of the
Mediterranean Sea off the western coast ofItaly , bounded byCorsica andSardinia (west),Tuscany ,Lazio ,Campania , andCalabria (east), andSicily (south).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily
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Also known as the Tyrrhenian Sea, which lies between the islands of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Perhaps because he was staying in Naples, Kaledine insisted upon learning especially about that part of the Mediterranean enclosed between Sardinia, southern Italy, and Sicily, -- the part which the ancients had called the Tyrrhenian Sea ....
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Marsili has a hidden but active magma chamber and lies beneath the surface of the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean east of Italy.
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Secrets of Montecristo Looking south from Elba on a clear day, the tiny, granite Isle of Montecristo rises dramatically from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Downsizing From an Empire to an Island Lennox Morrison 2011
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After two planes, a van, a ferry, and a taxi, we found ourselves on the very tip of Capri in a room with an amazing terrace overlooking the limestone masses, the Faraglioni, jutting out of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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After two planes, a van, a ferry, and a taxi, we found ourselves on the very tip of Capri in a room with an amazing terrace overlooking the limestone masses, the Faraglioni, jutting out of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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The elaborately restored 12th - century fortress Castello di Vicarello, near Poggi del Sasso, looks out across the Maremma's plains to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010
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Capri is a dream, a jagged chunk of limestone that juts out of the cobalt blue Tyrrhenian Sea just west of the Sorrentine peninsula.
Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010
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The mountaintop views take in rumpled, thickly forested ridgelines and shadowed valleys all the way out to the glinting Tyrrhenian Sea.
The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010
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We'd love to tell you, dear reader, that we've been holed up in our Tuscan hideaway over the past month, reading incredibly literary novels and sipping Sangiovese while the sun sets softly over the Tyrrhenian Sea, spending our evenings talking to local peasant folk of the upcoming harvest, and dancing smilingly and politely with the landowner's daughter, but alas we cannot.
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