ADRIA, a City of Italy upon the Tartaro, in the State of Venice. It gives its this name, rigorously speaking, belongs only to the Sea which is incloled within the Adriatick Gulf, yet in the Acts of the Apostles the sacred Author, describing the Navigation of St. Paul, takes it for the Sicilian and Ionian Sea.
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