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* My big unabridged dictionary categorizes Atlantis as a 'legend.'
* Located west of Gibralter.
* It sank.
* But linked by some modern archaeologists with the island Thera ( Santorin, Santorini ) in the Cyclades archipelago, Southern Aegean Sea, Greece, destroyed in a 1,500 BC eruption, which took half the island.
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* A couple years ago, PBS Television had a program about a famous resort community, favored by the one-percenters of the Roman Empire.
* Today, half of the villas are submerged, clearly seen underwater.
* Obviously, the Mediterranean region is known for subsidence-induced real estate losses.
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Finally, the Minoan Empire was swept off it's island in a volcanic eruption-induced tsunami.
Rough neighborhood!