 Cythera, the southernmost, is just off the southern tip of the Peloponnese and Corfu, the northernmost, is located at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea.In modern Greek, the period of Venetian rule over Greek territory is known as "Venetokratia" or "Enetokratia" ( or ) and literally means "rule of the Venetians".It is believed that the Venetian period on the Ionian Islands was agreeable, especially compared with the coinciding "Tourkokratia" — Turkish rule over the remainder of present-day Greece.