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The origin of the name is not clear, as it is not known in earlier Greek, Byzantine or Islamic sources. It may be to contrast with the Black Sea. In Persian, the name was translated as Baḥr-i Safīd, which was also used in later Ottoman Turkish.
- Mediterranean (Disambiguation)
Geography. Mediterranean seas, an oceanographic term to...
- Southern Europe
The geographical and ethno-cultural borders of southern...
- Mediterranean Basin
Physical and political map of the Mediterranean Basin. In...
- History of The Mediterranean Region
Bacino del Mediterraneo, dall'Atlante manoscritto del...
- Zanclean Flood
The sector of the Zanclean channel that passes through the...
- Desiccated
Desiccation cracks in sludge Centripetal desiccation cracks...
- Levantine Sea
The Levantine Sea (Arabic: بحر الشام, romanized: baḥr...
- Calypso Deep
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- Geological Evidence
Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man is a book...
- History of Western Civilization
The School of Athens, a famous fresco by the Italian...
- Mediterranean (Disambiguation)
The search for the origin of language has a long history in mythology. Most mythologies do not credit humans with the invention of language but speak of a divine language predating human language.
The Romans called the Mediterranean Sea, Mare Magnum ("Great Sea") or Mare Internum ("Internal Sea") and, starting with the Roman Empire, Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). The 163 km (101 mi) long man-made Suez Canal in the southeast connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
1 day ago · Survey of the Mediterranean Sea, the intercontinental sea that separates Europe from Africa. Called the incubator of Western civilization, it runs west to east from the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco to the coast of Turkey and north to south between Croatia’s southern shores and Libya.
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The term Mare Nostrum originally was used by the Ancient Romans to refer to the Tyrrhenian Sea after their conquest of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica during the Punic Wars with Carthage. By 30 BC, Roman dominion had extended from the Iberian Peninsula to Egypt, and Mare Nostrum began to be used in the context of the whole Mediterranean Sea. Other nam...
In the decades following the 1861 unification of Italy, Italian nationalists who saw Italy as the successor state to the Roman Empire attempted to revive the term. In particular, the rise of Italian nationalism during the "Scramble for Africa" of the 1880s led to calls for the establishment of an Italian colonial empire, which introduced for the fi...
The term was again taken up by Benito Mussolini for use in fascist propaganda, in a similar manner to Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum. Mussolini wanted to re-establish the greatness of the Roman Empire and believed that Italy was the most powerful of the Mediterranean countries after World War I.He declared that "the twentieth century will be a century o...
Mare Nostrum is the title of a best-selling novel by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published in 1918. A film based on itwas released in 1948. The term "Mare Nostrum" was chosen as the theme for the Inaugural Conference of the Society for Mediterranean Law and Culture, being held in June 2012 at the University of Cagliari Faculty of Law, Sar...
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Nov 26, 2017 · Latin mediterrāneus is after ancient Greek μεσόγαιος (= mesόgaios), meaning situated in the middle of land: – the combining form μεσο- (= meso-), from μέσος (= mésos), meaning middle, is also found in the name Μεσοποταμία (= Mesopotamía), from μεσοποτάμιος (= mesopotámios), between rivers (Greek ποταμός (= potamόs) meant river – Mesopotamia is a...
The history of the Mediterranean Sea is not quite the same as the history of the Mediterranean lands, though the two have generally been confused. In this chapter, the emphasis is on the sea itself, in the belief that this permits a world-historical understanding of the Mediterranean.
