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An arm of the Mediterranean west of the Italian Peninsula, enclosed by Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica, and dotted with active and dormant volcanoes including the island of Stromboli. It was central to Etruscan, Greek and Roman seafaring in antiquity.

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