Corinth,Gulf of

Corinth,Gulf of
Corinth, Gulf of Formerly Gulf of Le·pan·to (lĭ-pănʹtō, lĕʹpän-tô).
An inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnesus and central Greece.

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