mediterranean

     

The Meiterranean is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km² (965,000 sq mi), but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (9 mi) wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.

Trivia about mediterranean

  • The Adriatic & Ionian Seas are arms of this larger sea
  • In 67 B.C. Pompey's Roman forces cleared out the pirates from this large sea
  • The name for this sea comes from the Latin for "in the middle of land"
  • The Romans referred to it as Mare Nostrum, "Our Sea"
  • Around the year 1000, the pirate Mogahid roamed this sea from his base in Sardinia
  • Vacation on the French Riviera & you'll spend time on this sea
  • If you're visiting the Cannes Film Festival, you're on this sea
  • In bestial southern France, Berre Lagoon leads to the Gulf of Lion, an inlet of this sea
  • The Etesian wind blows all summer over the lands around the Adriatic & Aegean Seas, arms of this sea
  • The Province of Granada borders Malaga, Murcia & this body of water
  • Constantinople gained strategic importance due to being situated between the Black Sea & this larger sea
  • Marseille & Sete are major ports of the Gulf of Lion, an arm of this sea
  • In Monopoly it's the first property after "Go"
  • The name of this sea is Latin for "in the middle of land"
  • Most Moroccan rivers flow into the Atlantic or disappear in the Sahara, but the Moulouya flows into this sea
  • On his deathbed Jacob said Zebulon "shall dwell at the haven of the sea", this sea
  • Sicily(on all sides)
  • The fruit fly named for this body of water was thought to be eradicated in the U.S. in 1930; oops
  • The "med" in the name medfly refers to this region where it can damage olive trees
  • This sea's widest north-south extent is between Libya & Croatia
  • The Cinque Terre, 5 fishing villages on the Italian Riviera, overlook the Ligurian Sea, an arm of this sea
  • This large sea serves as the Sahara's northern boundary

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