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Ancona; for these mountains, commencing at Liguria, enter
Tyrrhenia, leaving but a narrow sea-coast; they afterwards
retire by degrees into the interior, and having reached the
territory of Pisa, turn towards the east in the direction of
the Adriatic as far as the country about Ariminum and
Ancona, where they approach the sea-coast of the Heneti at
right angles. Cisalpine Keltica is enclosed within these
limits, and the length of the coast joined to that of the mountains is 6300 stadia; its breadth rather less than 2000. The
remainder of Italy is long and narrow, and terminates in two
promontories, one note extending to the Strait of Sicily, the other note to Iapygia. It is embraced on one side by the Adriatic, note on
the other by the Tyrrhenian Sea. note The form and size of the
Adriatic resembles that portion of Italy bounded by the
Apennines and the two seas, and extending as far as Iapygia
and the isthmus which separates the Gulf of Taranto from
that of Posidonium. note The greatest breadth of both is about
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].