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The western coast is Italian, while the eastern coast runs along the countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Albania.
The name has existed since the antiquity, in Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum. In modern languages, it's Mare Adriatico in Italian, Jadransko morje in Slovenian, and Jadransko more in Croatian, SerbianThe Serbian language or Serb language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. Serbian is used primarily in Serbia-Montenegro, Republika Srpska and by Serbs everywhere. and BosnianThe Bosnian language bosanski jezik or Bosniak language boSnjacki jezik is one of the standard written versions of the Central South Slavic diasystem, formerly known as Serbo-Croatian. The language is used primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina a.
The name, derived from the town of AdriaAdria is a town in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po. It is the seat of a diocese. The Etruscan city of Atria (or Adria underlies the modern city, three to four meters bel (or Hadria), belonged originally only to the upper portion of the sea (Herodotus vi. 127, vii. 20, ix. 92; Euripides, Hippolytus, 736), but was gradually extended as the SyracusanMediterranean Sea, showing location of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. Map also shows Italy, Tunisia, and the islands Sardinia and Corsica. Syracuse Siracusa in Italian) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily, Italy. Syracuse was founded in 734 BC by colonies gained in importance.
But even then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as far as the Mons Garganus , the outer portion being called the Ionian SeaThe Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria and Sicily, to the west, by southwestern Albania and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ith: the name was sometimes, however, inaccurately used to include the Gulf of Tarentum (the modern-day Gulf of TarantoThe Gulf of Taranto ( Italian: Golfo di Taranto Latin: Sinus Tarentinus is a gulf of the Ionian sea, in southern Italy. The Gulf of Taranto is almost square, 140 km long and wide, and is delimited by the capes Santa Maria di Leuca (east, Apulia) and Colon), the Sea of Sicily , the Gulf of CorinthThe Gulf of Corinth is the body of water separating Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth, and in the west by the strait of Rio-Antirio, crossed by the Rio-Antirio bridge. It is almost surrounded by and even the sea between CreteCrete sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Kappa;ρτ&eta / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Greek island closest to North Africa. Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites and Malta (Acts xxvii. 27).
The Adriatic extends northwest from 40° to 45° 45' N., with an extreme length of about 480 miles (770 km), and a mean breadth of about 100 miles (160 km), but the Strait of Otranto , through which it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45 miles (72 km) wide.
Moreover, the chain of islands which fringes the northern part of the eastern shore reduces the extreme breadth of open sea in this part to 90 miles. Its total surface area is about 60,000 square miles ( 160,000 km²)
The northern part of the sea is very shallow, and between the southern promontories of Istria and Rimini the depth rarely exceeds 25 fathoms (46 m). Between ibenik and Ortona a well-marked depression occurs, a considerable area of which exceeds 100 fathoms (180 m) in depth.
From a point between Korcula and the north shore of the spur of Monte Gargano there is a ridge giving shallower water, and a broken chain of a few islets extends across the sea.
The deepest part of the sea lies east of Monte Gargano, south of Dubrovnik, and west of Durrės where a large basin gives depths of 500 fathoms (900 m) and upwards, and a small area in the south of this basin falls below 800 (1,460 m). The mean depth of the sea is estimated at 133 fathoms (240 m).
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