{"id":28803,"date":"2015-11-04T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=28803"},"modified":"2020-12-05T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:42:22","slug":"strait-of-otranto-the-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-otranto-the-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Otranto, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>trait of Otranto <\/strong>is a 45-mile stretch of water that separates the &#8216;heel&#8217; of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/otranto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28805\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/otranto-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"otranto\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>Italy from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/albania\/\">Albania<\/a> at the entrance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/adriatic\/\">Adriatic Sea<\/a>. It is also one of a number of proposed locations for the &#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217; referred to by Plato. However, proponents of this idea are not agreed on the location of Atlantis, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fatih-hodzic-amended\/\">Fatih Hod\u017ei?<\/a> places Atlantis in the Southern Adriatic Basin, while more recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/toscano-alessio-n\/\">Alessio Toscano<\/a> has opted for the northeastern Adriatic. An anonymous contributor to the <em>all empires website<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup>has an extensively illustrated entry, which designates the Albanian city of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/durres-n\/\">Durres<\/a> as Atlantis and notes the multiplicity of locations that have referred to as the &#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217;, including the Strait of Otranto.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><sup>(a)<\/sup> See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160215170454\/https:\/\/www.allempires.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=19710\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160215170454\/https:\/\/www.allempires.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=19710<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strait of Otranto is a 45-mile stretch of water that separates the &#8216;heel&#8217; of Italy from Albania at the entrance to the Adriatic Sea. It is also one of a number of proposed locations for the &#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217; referred to by Plato. However, proponents of this idea are not agreed on the location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4239,142,4238,141,143,48,368],"class_list":["post-28803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adriatic-sea","tag-albania","tag-alessio-toscano","tag-durres","tag-fatih-hodzic","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-strait-of-otranto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47336,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803\/revisions\/47336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}