Seas of religious and historical importance, partly enclosed stretches of salt water on whose shores prophets walked, empires traded and pilgrims sailed. Their names and shores recur in scripture and in the sacred geography of the neighboring peoples. Several were crossed in famous voyages recorded in sacred texts, and the sea itself sometimes appears as a power to be tamed, crossed or feared in the stories of the surrounding peoples. Members placed here so far include Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Dead Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Arabian Sea, Aegean Sea, Sea of Japan.
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Mediterranean Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Mediterranean Sea ( MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is an intercontinental sea situated between Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Red Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Red Sea is a mediterranean sea lying between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
Dead Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit; or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest.
Black Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Black Sea is a marginal sea located between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Sea of Marmara (Wikipedia)
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The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora, the Marmara Sea, or Propontis (/prəˈpɒntɪs/; ancient Greek: Προποντίς /pro.ponˈdis/), is a small inland sea entirely within the borders of Turkey.
Arabian Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بَحرُ ٱلْعَرَبْ, romanized: baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, and on the southwest by Somalia.
Aegean Sea (Wikipedia)
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The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
Sea of Japan (Wikipedia)
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The Sea of Japan (see § Names for other names) is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East.
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