Talk:Ionian Sea

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[edit] Length of Ionian Sea

Does anyone know the length of the Ionian Sea because I can't find it anywhere?


[edit] Etymology of Ionian Sea

Various etymologies have been suggested for the name.

I suppose that:

The word is derivated by Aonians (or Aones), a people of ancient Greece which, originally, lived at Illyrian coasts and later, migreted to Boeotia (originally, Aonia).

Perhaps, Chaonians (or Chaones, a people lived in Epirus, in classic era (8th - 1st centuries B.C.), were their posterity.

The others etymologies (from Ionians or Io) has fewer probabilities.

--IonnKorr 17:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Albanian translation.

While "Joné" might be translated as "ours" in Albanian, here it is used just as the name of the Sea. "Deti Jon" means just "Jon Sea".

Fixed76.20.226.239 (talk) 01:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)