To the west of the Isthmus is the Gulf of Corinth, to the east the Saronic Gulf.

Since 1893 the Corinth Canal has run through the 6.3 km wide isthmus, effectively making the Peloponnese an island.

It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens.

Following his victory at the Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes sacked the evacuated city of Athens and prepared to meet the Greeks at the strategic Isthmus of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf.

The country consists of a large mainland the Peloponnese, a peninsula connected to the southern tip of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth and a large number of islands, including Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades.

However, the Peloponnesian cities made fall back plans to defend the Isthmus of Corinth should it come to that, whilst the women and children of Athens had been evacuated en masse to the Peloponnesian city of Troezen.

The canal is crossed by a railway line, a road and a motorway at a height of about .

Corinto is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais.

Sparta acquired two powerful allies, Corinth and Elis (also city states), by ridding Corinth of tyranny, and helping Elis secure control of the Olympic Games.

Clement calls on the Christians of Corinth to maintain harmony and order.

Southwest of Delphi, about away, is the harbor city of Kirrha on the Corinthian Gulf.

Argos is to the south Corinth, to the north.

Thinking that he was from Corinth, he set out toward Thebes to avoid this fate.

This probably implies Corinth as it was the location of Paul s greatest missionary success in Greece.

Erastus, mentioned in , also lived in Corinth being the city's commissioner for public works and city treasurer at various times, again indicating that the letter was written in Corinth.

The Isthmus of Panama, also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

Himno Istmeño (English Hymn of the Isthmus ) is the national anthem of Panama ().

The states of Tabasco and Chiapas are east of the isthmus, with Veracruz and Oaxaca on the west.

The isthmus between them is what geologists call the Tunis dome , which includes hills of limestone and sediments.

Geophysically, some geographers include the territory east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (around 12 of the total) within Central America.

Precious metals passed through Lima on its way to the Isthmus of Panama and from there to Seville, Spain.

In the following years, the Romans conquered more of the island, increasing the size of Roman Britain.

These were the only banknotes issued by Panama and U.S. notes have circulated both before and since.

The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

An isthmus ( or plural isthmuses from ) is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side.

SICA membership includes the 7 nations of Central America plus the Dominican Republic, a state that is traditionally considered part of the Caribbean.

To the south it borders the regions of Attica and the Peloponnese, to the west the region of West Greece and to the north the regions of Thessaly and Epirus.

However, the information gleaned from recent scans of the fragments indicate that it may have come from the colonies of Corinth in Sicily and implies a connection with Archimedes.

The Neogene is a geologic period and system in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) Geologic Timescale starting 23.03 million years ago and ending 2.58 million years ago.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (transected by the Suez Canal), wide.

Megalonychids first reached North America by island hopping, about 9 million years ago, prior to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

The diphthong ει had already merged with ι in the 5th century BC in Argos, and by the 4th century BC in Corinth (e.g.

The island consists of two roughly round portions centred on volcanic mountains and connected by a short isthmus named after the small town of Taravao, situated there.

Many of the city's suburbs lie on the large plain called the Cape Flats, which extends over to the east and joins the peninsula to the mainland.

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

At the temple of Aphrodite on the summit of Acrocorinth (before the Roman destruction of the city in 146 BC), intercourse with her priestesses was considered a method of worshiping Aphrodite.

Oaxaca ( , , from ), officially Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (), is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, make up the 32 federative entities of Mexico.

That is, while a strait lies between two land masses and connects two larger bodies of water, an isthmus lies between two bodies of water and connects two larger land masses.

1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, in service of Spain arrives at the Pacific Ocean (which he called Mar del Sur) across the Isthmus of Panama.

This temple was not rebuilt when the city was re established under Roman rule in 44 BC, but the fertility rituals likely continued in the main city near the agora.

The end result of the treaty, however, was to give the United States a legal opening in politically and economically influencing the Panama isthmus, which was part of New Granada at the time, but was later to become the independent country of Panama in accordance with the wishes of the United States.

As Brittany and Cotentin are peninsulas, it would have been possible for the Germans to cut off the Allied advance at a relatively narrow isthmus, so these sites were rejected.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (which is transected by the Suez Canal), wide.

However, to monitor the isthmus and to oppose a possible invasion of the rest of the territory, a permanent garrison was established in the area, under the military government of Campo de Gibraltar.

According to the ancient Greek traveller Pausanias, there was a temple in ancient Corinth where the goddesses Ananke and Bia (meaning violence or violent haste) were worshipped together in the same shrine.