Adria

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Adria
     (Acts 27:27; R.V., "the sea of Adria"), the Adriatic Sea,
     including in Paul's time the whole of the Mediterranean lying
     between Crete and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the
     _Mare Superum_ of the Romans, as distinguished from the _Mare
     Inferum_ or Tyrrhenian Sea.