Gulf of Piran Gulf of Piran The Gulf of Piran or Piran Bay (, or, recently, , ) is located in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, and is a part of the southernmost tip of the Gulf of Trieste. It was named after the town of Piran, and its shores are shared by Croatia and Slovenia. It is delimited by a line connecting Cape Savudrija ("Savudrijski rt") in the south to the Cape Madona ("Rt Madona") in the north and measures around . Since the 1990s, the name Bay of Savudrija ("Savudrijska vala") has also been used in Croatia. On the
Gulf of Aden of Berbera", named after the ancient Somali port city of Berbera on the south side of the gulf. However, as the city of Aden grew during the colonial era, the name of "Gulf of Aden" was popularized. The waterway is part of the important Suez Canal shipping route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, with 21,000 ships crossing the gulf annually. The name of the Gulf was inspired by the former British Crown Colony city of Aden, now part of Yemen. The Somali names are Gacanka Cadmeed or Gacanka Berbera. The International Hydrographic Organization