Lake Sinoe is a
lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') ...
in
Northern Dobruja,
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
, close to the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...
. Its name derives from
Slavic (''Blue Lake''). The ruins of the ancient
Greek colony
Greek colonization was an organised colonial expansion by the Archaic Greeks into the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea in the period of the 8th–6th centuries BC.
This colonization differed from the migrations of the Greek Dark Ages in that i ...
of
Histria are located on the lake shore.
See also
*
Sinoe oil field located on the continental shelf of the Black Sea, discovered in 1991 and developed by Petrom.
*
Sinoê an Arcadian nymph associated with the
Roman deity Pan
External links
MapRazim-Sinoe"Biosphere Roadmap" poster from Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) international centre for geoscience research and consulting
Razim-Sinoe Case Studycomplete 48-page report from Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) international centre for geoscience research consultants on th
Danube Delta Reserve
Lakes of Constanța County
Lagoons of Romania
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