Fall of the Republic of Venice with Napoleon. On 10 June, the heir to the Duchy of Parma, Louis of Bourbon, and two days later, Napoleon invaded the Romagna, which belonged to the Papal States; on 23 June the Pope had to accept the French occupation of the northern Legations, allowing the French to occupy the port city of Ancona on the Adriatic Sea. The appearance of French warships in the Adriatic led Venice to renew the ancient decree that prohibited the entry of foreign fleets in the Venetian Lagoon, and informed Paris of that. Flotillas and fortifications were established along the lagoon's shores with the
Levantine Sea Levantine Sea stretches over an area of . The northern part of the Levantine Sea between Cyprus and Turkey is called the Cilician Sea. Also in the north are two large bays, the Gulf of İskenderun (northeast) and the Gulf of Antalya (northwest). The Leviathan gas field is located in this area under the Levantine basin in the southeastern part of the Mediterranean. To the west of the Levantine Deep Marine Basin is the Nile Delta Basin, followed by the Herodotus Basin, large and up to deep, which – at a possible age of 340 million years – is believed