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37: 29: 246: 195: 84:. The gulf stretches east to west to a distance of 15 to 22 kilometers (9.3 to 13.7 mi), depending on the definition, and is very shallow, with a maximum depth of 27 meters (89 ft). The only harbour is that of 124:
and smaller streams, the gulf has been shrinking over the centuries. In the summer of 426 BC, a tsunami hit the gulf between the northwest tip of Euboea and Lamia. The ancient strait of
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Map of the Malian Gulf shoreline at various times from Antiquity until the present day
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River was established as the northern border of the newly independent Greek state.
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Three Great Tsunamis: Lisbon (1755), Sumatra-Andaman (2004) and Japan (2011)
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and the Malian Gulf, has now become a broad coastal plain.
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Due to the constant accretion of silt from the river the
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Greek
romanized
Aegean Sea
Greece
Phthiotis
Stylida
Lamia
Cape Lichada
Euboea
Malians
Spercheios
Thermopylae
famous battle
Kallidromo
London Protocol of 1830
Aspropotamos
Three Great Tsunamis: Lisbon (1755), Sumatra-Andaman (2004) and Japan (2011)
ISBN
978-9400765764

Maliakos
38°52′N 22°38′E / 38.867°N 22.633°E / 38.867; 22.633
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Central Greece
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