Gulf of Drin Gulf of Drin The Gulf of Drin or Drin Bay () is an ocean basin of the Adriatic Sea within the Mediterranean Sea in the northern coast of Albania. Roughly in shape of a scythe, it extends immediately from the Delta of Buna in the north, across the port city of Shëngjin, to the Cape of Rodon in the south. The shoreline of the gulf is a shallow combination of sandy beaches, sand dunes, capes, salty and fresh water wetlands, estuaries, pine and coastal forests, reed beds and coastal meadows. The shoreline of the gulf has a length of approximately
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea believed to be the location of the ancient trade center of Opone. Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Persian Gulf pottery has been recovered from the site by an archaeological team from the University of Michigan. Opone is in the thirteenth entry of the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea", which in part states: In ancient times, Opone operated as a port of call for merchants from Phoenicia, Egypt, Greece, Persia, Yemen, Nabataea, Azania, the Roman Empire and elsewhere, as it possessed a strategic location along the coastal route from Azania to the Red Sea. Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and