Adria – city in central Italy. Ancient Adria pertained to Picen region. In the second Punic War, Hannibal took Adria in 217 BC. In 209 BC Adria sent money and manpower to Rome, supporting him in the war. The name of two small cities in Italy: (1) Hadria in South Pitzen, the birthplace of the ancestors of the emperor Hadrian; (2) Atria in Venice, arose in 1376 BC on the site of the Etruscan, and later the Greek colony, which gave the name to the Adriatic Sea; city in northeastern Italy. The village of Adria was the ancient Roman port on the Adriatic Sea; the sea was called in honor of the city. In 69 BC the part of the naval forces of the Emperor Vitellius was based in Adria in his war against rivals. Later, Adria was 22 km further from the coast as a result of a change in the coastline; (3) The Adriatic Sea, the abbreviation was first used by the English poet Milton.
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Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V., Joksimović, A., Đurović, M. (2021). Adria. In: The Adriatic Sea Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50032-0_5
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