Seven Seas - Phoenicians

Phoenicians

The Seven Seas refers to the Phoenicians names for the seven seas of the Mediterranean. These were the first seas that the world's first great sailors knew and charted. They can still be found today on any nautical chart of the Mediterranean. While many have adopted the term through history as various cultures took to the oceans, the original seven seas are:

  • the Alboran Sea
  • the Balearic Sea
  • the Ligurian Sea
  • the Tyrrhenian Sea
  • the Ionian Sea
  • the Adriatic Sea
  • the Aegean Sea

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