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A trapezoid covering the Mediterranean Sea in which thousand of ships have sunk under mysterious circumstances over the last several Millennia. The trapezoids points are clockwise from SW to SE: Gibraltar to Genova, from Genova to Istanbul, from Istanbul to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem back to Gibraltar.
During the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages many ships were lost in the Mediterranean Trapezoid.
by sanfrancisco89 August 20, 2010
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