Gulf of Squillace

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The Gulf of Squillace (It. Golfo di Squillace) is a body of water along the southern coast of Italy.

The gulf, renowned for its natural beauty, is part of the Ionian Sea and makes up part of the east coast of the region of Calabria. It takes its present-day name from the coastal town of Squillace.

Originally known as Scylleticus Sinus, the Gulf of Squillace is the eastern half of a narrow isthmus. The western half is comprised of the Gulf of Saint Eufemia.

The public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, refers to the town and gulf thus:

Squillace is situated on the east coast of Calabria (ancient Bruttium), situated on the shores of an extensive bay, to which it gave the name of Scylleticus Sinus (Strab.vi. p. 261.) It is this bay, still known as the Gulf of Squillace (Italian: Golfo di Squillace), which indents the coast of Calabria on the east as deeply as that of Hipponium or Terina (the Gulf of Saint Eufemia, Italian: Golfo di Sant'Eufemia) does on the west, so that they leave but a comparatively narrow isthmus between them. (Strab. l. c.; Plin. iii. 10. s. 15.)

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).