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Saronic Gulf

The Saronic Gulf
Gulf

Gulf can refer to:* A large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. For example, the Gulf of Mexico is the tenth largest body of water in the world...
(Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: Sa??????? ???p??, Saronikós kólpos) or Gulf of Aegina
Aegina

Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
forms part of the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth

Isthmus of Corinth

The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth....
. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal

Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesus peninsula from the Greece mainland and therefore effectively making the former an island....
, which cuts across the isthmus. Islands

Saronic Islands

The Saronic Islands are so named because they lie in the Saronic Gulf just off the Greece mainland. The main inhabited islands of this group are Salamis Island , Aegina, Angistri, and Poros....
that are lined in the middle of the Gulf are Aegina

Aegina

Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
, Salamis

Salamis Island

Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
, and Poros

Poros

Poros is a small Greece island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel....
along with smaller islands of Patroklou and Vleves. The port of Piraeus

Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
, Athens' port, lies on the northeastern edge of the gulf.

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The Saronic Gulf
Gulf

Gulf can refer to:* A large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. For example, the Gulf of Mexico is the tenth largest body of water in the world...
(Greek

Greek language

Greece

Aegean Sea

Isthmus of Corinth

Corinth Canal

Saronic Islands

Aegina

Salamis Island

Poros

Piraeus

Ellinikon International Airport

Ellinikon International Airport , sometimes spelled Hellinikon was the international airport of Athens for sixty years up until 2001 when it was replaced by Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport....
is also in the northeast. Beaches are lined up to much of its coast from Poros

Poros

Epidaurus

Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros , part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site....
, Galataki to Kineta

Kineta

Kineta is also a place in C?te d'Ivoire, see Kineta, C?te d'IvoireKineta is a suburban town located 52 km W of downtown Athens. Kineta is the westernmost town in Attica and is part of the municipality of Megara....
and from Megara

Megara

Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens....
to Eleusis and from Piraeus down to Anavyssos

Anavyssos

Anavyssos is a suburban Athens town in East Attica, located northwest of Cape Sounion. It is linked by Greece Interstate 91 and runs through Anavyssos, and no railroad....
. Athens' urban area surrounds the northern and the eastern coasts of this gulf.

Bays in the gulf include Phaleron Bay

Phaleron Bay

Faliron Bay, is a bay almost 8 km directly SW of Athens overlooking Andreas Syngrou Avenue. The bay is flanked by Neo Faliro at the Peace and Friendship Stadium and a harbor street encircling the western part of the bay, Poseidonos Avenue along with Kallithea in the north and Palaio Faliro in the southeast....
, Elefsina Bay to the north and Kechries Bay in the northwest.

The volcanoes of Methana

Methana

Methana , can refer to a town, a Communities and Municipalities of Greece, a volcano , and a peninsula located in the Piraeus Prefecture, in Greece in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the district of Loutropolis Methana ....
is to the southwest along with Kromyonia at the Isthmus of Corinth, Aegina and Poros. Methana is also the youngest, active volcano center and the northwestern end of the cycladic arch of active volcanoes like Milos island, Santorini island and Nisyros island. The last eruption took place in a submarine volcano north of Methana in the 17th century.

The gulf has refineries around the northern part of the gulf including east of Corinth and west of Agioi Theodoroi, Eleusis, Aspropyrgos, Skaramangas and Keratsini, mainly in the northern part and the most refineries around gulfs in Greece and production. The ships cross these routes. The total production are one of the highest in Greece. Most of the oils are mainly exported. The route cross the strait between Salamis and Perama. These refineries are Athens' main oil production and the rest of Greece.

The origin of the name comes from the mythological

Mythology

The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
king Saron

Saron

Saron may mean:* Saron, Western Cape, a town in South Africa* Saron, a mythical king who gave his name to the Saronic Gulf* a biblical name also written as Sharon...
who drowned at the Psifaei lake (modern Psifta). The Saronic Gulf was a string of six entrances to the Underworld

Underworld

In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly the dead souls go....
, each guarded by a chthonic

Chthonic

Chthonic designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Ancient Greek religion.Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the Landscape or the land as territory ....
enemy in the shapes of thieves and bandits.

The Battle of Salamis

Battle of Salamis

The Battle of Salamis , was a naval battle fought between an Alliance of Greece city-states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia in September 480 BC in the straits between the mainland and Salamis Island, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens....
changed the development of Europe until today.

Fault lines dominate especially in the northwestern part.

An earthquake on Monday January 4, 2005 rumbled the Saronic at the Richter scale of 4.9. The epicentre was at ?. It tremored Aegina

Aegina

Nafplion

Nafplion or Nauplion is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf....
and went as far as Kalamata

Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf....
. It occurred at 16:00 (UTC), 18:00 local time (BNST).

The port of Cenchreae used to situate here.

Tributaries

Kechries Bay
Saronic Bay Coast (basin)

Lower Galataki Basin
Upper Galataki Basin
Examilia
Examilia

Examilia is a community in the municipality of Corinth, Greece. Distance is about 7 km south of Corinth and 3 km S of the Corinth interchange with Greece Interstate 8A/E94, the old road and E of Greece Interstate 7 and E65, E of Kechries , W of Loutra Elenis....
Basin
Athikia
Athikia

Athikia is the seat of the municipality of Saronikos, located in the prefecture of Corinthia in Greece. Athikia has a population of approximately 2000 and is located 15 km South of the city of Corinth....
Basin

Loutro
Loutro

Loutro may refer to several places:...
Basin
Megara Bay/Megara Gulf
Megara Gulf

The Megara Gulf is a Headlands and bays that is in the northern part of the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. The total length is approximately 20 km long from north east to west and about 6 to 10 km wide from north to south....
Cephissus
Cephissus

Cephissus or Cephisus is the name of several rivers in Greece.* Cephissus , a river arising in Phocis and flowing through northern Boeotia into Lake Copais....
River (Eleusis)
Cephissus (Athenian plain)
Cephissus (Athenian plain)

Cephissus or Cephisus , a river flowing through the Athenian plain.In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus....
between Piraeus
Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
and Phaliron.

Capes

Cape Lomvardi - SW of Vouliagmeni
Vouliagmeni

Vouliagmeni is an exclusive seaside municipality 20 km south of Athens. Its population was 6,442 at the 2001 census. It sits on the southwestern foot of the Hymettus mountain range, and its exact location is around 37.8?, or 37?48'N, and around 23.83? or 23?50'E....