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CORINTH, ISTHMUS OF

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 150 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORINTH, ISTHMUS OF , an
isthmus
  of
Greece
 , dividing the Gulf of
Corinth
  from the Saronic Gulf. Ships were sometimes dragged across it in ancient times at a place called the Diolcus (&EvKav, to pull or cut through). Nero, in A.D. 67, began cutting a canal through it; but the project was abandoned. In 1893 a ship canal was opened, with its western entrance about 14 m. N.E. of the little town of New
Corinth
 . It was begun in 1881 by a French company, which ceased operations in 1889, a Greek company completing the undertaking. The canal is about 70 ft. broad, nearly 4 M.
long
 , and 26 ft. deep. It shortens the journey from the Adriatic to the Peiraeus by 202 m., but foreign steamships seldom use it, as the narrowness of the canal and the strength of the current at times render the passage dangerous. About r m. from its western end it is crossed by the iron
bridge
  of the Athens and Corinth railway. Traces of the Isthmian
wall
  may still be seen parallel to the canal; it was constructed, at an unknown date, for the fortification of the
Isthmus
 . Just to the S. of it, and about z m. from the sea are the remains of the Isthmian
precinct
  of Poseidon and its
stadium
 , where the Isthmian
games
  were celebrated. This
precinct
  served also as a fortress. Within it have been found traces of the temple of Poseidon and other buildings. (E. GR.)


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