It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.

Since 2002, Actium is linked with Preveza on the north shore of the Ambracian Gulf by the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel, or Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel ( traffic labels ).

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay of Vlorë in the north to the Ambracian Gulf in the south.

The historical region of Epirus is generally regarded as extending from the northern end of the Ceraunian mountains ( modern Llogara in Albania ), located just south of the Bay of Aulon ( modern Vlorë ), to the Ambracian Gulf ( or Gulf of Arta ) in Greece.

During this time, the definition of Epirus came to encompass the entire coastal region from the Ambracian Gulf to Dyrrachium ( modern-day Durrës, in Albania ).

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The regional unit of Arta is located north of the Ambracian Gulf.

Preveza () is a town in the region of Epirus, northwestern Greece, located at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf.

Over the next two days, 13 – 14 October 1798, a major massacre of the French troops and the local Greek population which defended the city took place in Preveza and the Port Salaora on the Ambracian Gulf, starting before Ali Pasha entered Preveza on 13 October but continuing also in his presence.

The Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel, opened on 2002, is an important work of infrastructure for what has traditionally been a remote and underdeveloped region, and links Preveza to Actium (, Aktio ) on the southern shore of the Ambracian Gulf, greatly shortening the distance of the trip to Lefkada.

This section of motorway is expected to serve the popular tourist region around the Ambracian Gulf.

In the aftermath of the battle of Actium in the Ambracian Gulf in 31 BC, Octavian himself founded Nicopolis, the city of victory, in 28 BC, symbolically representing his successful unification of the Roman Empire under one administration and, geographically, a major transportation and communications point linking the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean.

It passes on the east side of the Ambracian Gulf.

* Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta, a gulf of the Ionian Sea

These territories extended from Axios river ( Αξιός ) to Ambracian Gulf ( Αμβρακικός ) and up to the Corinthian gulf ( Κορινθιακός ).

The region of Chameria overlaps to a high degree with the ancient and modern region of Thesprotia and the medieval region known as Vagenetia, lying north of Ambracian Gulf and west of the Pindus mountains.

The regional unit of Preveza is located northwest of the Ambracian Gulf.

Thesprotis stretched between the Ambracian Gulf in the south to the River Thyamis ( modern-day Kalamas ) in the north, and between the Pindus mountains and the Ionian Sea.

The Ambracian Gulf was the site of the Battle of Actium, in which Augustus ' forces defeated those of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

On 22 March 1829, a conference of ambassadors of the three protecting powers ( Britain, France and Russia ) established the borders of Greece, which was to encompass all lands south of the line running from the Ambracian Gulf to the Pagasetic Gulf, including Negroponte ( Euboea ) and the Cyclades but not Crete.

The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf (), is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece.

The Ambracian Gulf, as seen from the Space Shuttle in November 1994.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

* 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The main temple to Enki is called E-abzu, meaning " abzu temple " ( also E-en-gur-a, meaning " house of the subterranean waters ""), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.

The eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbors are located farthest in, near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ).

* Gulf Harbour, a development on Whangaparaoa Peninsula near Auckland, New Zealand

Only six breeding colonies are known: Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands, St. Kilda Island off Scotland, Grimsey Island and Eldey Island near Iceland, Funk Island near Newfoundland, and the Bird Rocks ( Rochers-aux-Oiseaux ) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The 922-kilometer southeastern side of the triangle is the land border with Nicaragua ; it follows the Río Coco near the Caribbean Sea and then extends southwestward through mountainous terrain to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean.

* Meteor service between Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Kronstadt, a strongly fortified Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, near the head of the Gulf of Finland.

* from phosphate mines near Ma ' an to the Gulf of Aqaba as the " Aqaba Railway.

In the summer, the extreme maximum temperature is much warmer in the north than in the south, with temperatures near the Gulf of Mexico occasionally reaching 100 ° F ( 38 ° C ), although temperatures above 95 ° F ( 35 ° C ) are commonplace.

The overnight lows in the winter average well above freezing throughout the state, with 46 ° F ( 8 ° C ) the average near the Gulf and an average low of 37 ° F ( 3 ° C ) in the winter in the northern part of the state.

Snow is not very common near the Gulf of Mexico, although those in the northern parts of the state can expect one to three snowfalls per year, with the frequency increasing northwards.

The system used to cross the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges through the Burra creek gorge, and then flow out to Spencer Gulf near Port Pirie.

The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected.

Neva flows from Lake Ladoga near Shlisselburg, runs on the Neva Lowland and falls into the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea.

Its source is just 240 km ( 150 mi ) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but the river runs directly away from the sea into the Sahara Desert, then takes a sharp right turn near the ancient city of Timbuktu ( Tombouctou ) and heads southeast to the Gulf of Guinea.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

Stretching about seventy kilometers, the island occupies a strategic location near the entry point to the Gulf of Oman from the Arabian Sea.

The Persian Gulf has hosted some of the most magnificent marine fauna and flora, some of which are near extinction or at serious environmental risk.

Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum deposits.