Flanaticus Sinus
Flanaticus Sinus (Plin. Nat. 3.19), or FLANONICUS (Φλανωνικὸς κόλπος, Steph. B. sub voce the gulf on the N.W. coast of Liburnia, which derived its name from a people called the FLANATES (Plin. Nat. 3.21). There was a town called FLANONA (Plin. l.c.; Ptol. 2.16.2, Fianona), between Alvona and Tarsatica. It is now called Canal del Quarnéro, well known for its dangerous navigation. (Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro, vol. i. p. 48; Neigebaur, Die Süd-Slaven, p. 249.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.