Lake Voulkaria at the isthmus
Cleopatra
A story goes that in 31 BC, during the battle of Actium, Cleopatra and Marc Anthony escaped their defeat by sailing through a shallow channel and over lake Voulkaria to the southcoast of the isthmus and back to Egypt.
It follows that Plagia must have been an island surrounded by the Ionean sea.
It follows that Plagia must have been an island surrounded by the Ionean sea.
The"Cleopatra canal" at the Ionean sea