- (الزقاق), "the P****age" and by the
Romans Fretum Gaditanum (Strait of Cadiz). In
Latin it has been
called Fretum Herculeum,
based on the name from antiquity...
-
classical literature ****espontium Pelagus, **** ****esponti****, and
Fretum ****esponti****. It was so
called from ****e, the
daughter of Athamas, who...
- Sardinian:
Buccas de Bonifatziu; Ligurian:
Bocche de Bunifazziu; Latin:
Fretum Galli****,
Fretum Taphros) is the
strait between Corsica and Sardinia,
named after...
- The
Strait of
Dover or
Dover Strait,
historically known as the
Dover Narrows, is the
strait at the
narrowest part of the
English Channel,
marking the boundary...
-
labelled as "dry valley". They are
named after mythical or
imaginary rivers. A
fretum (plural freta) is a
strait of
liquid connecting two
larger liquid bodies...
- “around”, and
fretum,
meaning “straits”, an
allusion to the
species distribution on
either side of the
English Channel,
called Fretum Galli**** in Latin...
- and
similar in size to the
Strait of Gibraltar,
officially named Seldon Fretum, has been
termed the 'Throat of Kraken' and
suggested to be a
location of...
- 1633 map of
Strait of Magellan,
showing Strait Le
Maire at the right,
marked Fretum le
Maire (Latin) and
Straet Le
Maire (Dutch)...
-
Henricus Hondius,
bears the inscription: "Insulas esse a Nova
Guinea usque ad
Fretum Magellani****
affirmat Hernandus Galego, qui ad eas
explorandas missus fuit...
- p. 363
Isidore of
Seville about Swinthila: "Totius
Spaniae intra oceani fretum monarchiam regni primum iste potitus" (He
first obtained the
monarchy of...
