Mediterranean (disambiguation)
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The Mediterranean Sea
is a major body of water south of Europe, west of Asia and north of Africa.
Mediterranean or Mediterranean sea may also refer to:
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
is a major body of water south of Europe, west of Asia and north of Africa.
Mediterranean or Mediterranean sea may also refer to:
Geography and oceanography
- Mediterranean sea (oceanography)Mediterranean sea (oceanography)In oceanography, a mediterranean sea is a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of water with outer oceans and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds....
, an oceanographic term to designate a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans - Mediterranean BasinMediterranean BasinIn biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation...
, the European, Asian, and African land areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea - Mediterranean climateMediterranean climateA Mediterranean climate is the climate typical of most of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, and is a particular variety of subtropical climate...
, a type of climate that resembles the weather in the Mediterranean basin - Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrubMediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrubMediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, defined by the World Wildlife Fund, characterized by dry summers and rainy winters. Summers are typically hot in low-lying inland locations but can be cool near some seas, as near San Francisco, which have a sea of cool waters...
, an ecoregion found in various parts of the world, named for the Mediterranean basin - Mediterranean RidgeMediterranean RidgeThe Mediterranean Ridge is a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea, running along a rough quarter circle from Calabria, south of Crete, to the southwest corner of Turkey, and from there eastwards south of Turkey, including Cyprus....
, a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea
Politics and military
- Mediterranean StatesMediterranean StatesThe Mediterranean States are the two countries of Cyprus and Malta. They are the only two Island countries in the Mediterranean Sea. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus would be a third, but no nation besides Turkey has recognized it as independent...
, the two countries of Cyprus and Malta - Mediterranean Union, a political partnership of European, African and Middle Eastern countries
- Mediterranean DialogueMediterranean DialogueThe Mediterranean Dialogue, first launched in 1994, is a forum of cooperation between NATO and seven countries of the Mediterranean. Its stated aim is "to create good relations and better mutual understanding and confidence throughout the region, promoting regional security and stability and...
, a forum of cooperation between NATO and seven countries of the Mediterranean - Mediterranean Theater of OperationsMediterranean Theater of OperationsThe Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army was originally called North African Theater of Operations and is an American term for the conflict that took place between the Allies and Axis Powers in North Africa and Italy during World War II...
, a major theatre of World War II - Mediterranean passMediterranean passThe Mediterranean pass was a document which identified a ship as being protected under a treaty with states of the Barbary Coast. Now known as the Barbary pirates, they required countries to pay tribute in exchange for not capturing that country's ships and crews...
, a document which identified a ship as being protected under a treaty with states of the Barbary Coast
Business and corporate
- Mediterranean CosmosMediterranean CosmosMediterranean Cosmos is a shopping mall located in the east side of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. It opened in October 2005 and claims to be the largest retail and entertainment development in the Balkans....
, a mall shopping-centre in east Thessaloniki, Greece - Mediterranean Harbor, one of the Tokyo Disney Sea's themed areas
- Ansa MediterraneanAnsa MediterraneanAnsa Mediterranean is a section of the Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata. According to its website, it is a new press agency for the Mediterranean and about the Mediterranean.-External links:* * *...
, an Italian news agency - British Mediterranean AirwaysBritish Mediterranean AirwaysBritish Mediterranean Airways Limited, trading as BMED, was an airline with operations from London Heathrow Airport in England. It operated scheduled services as a British Airways franchise to 17 destinations in 16 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia from London...
, an airline in the United Kingdom
Arts and literature
- Mediterranean noirMediterranean noirMediterranean Noir refers to a literary style that employs elements of noir and hardboiled crime fiction in a Mediterranean setting. Sex, crime, and physical violence often figure prominently in Mediterranean Noir narratives...
, a literary style in fiction - Mediterranean Revival architecture, a design style during the 20th century
- "The Mediterranean" (La Méditerranée), a major historical work by Fernand BraudelFernand BraudelFernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...
Other uses
- Mediterranean GamesMediterranean GamesThe Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years, mainly for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa and Asia meet. The idea was proposed at the 1948 Summer Olympics by Muhammed Taher Pasha, chairman of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and they were first...
, a multi-sport games held every four years - Mediterranean LeagueMediterranean LeagueThe Mediterranean League, also referred to as the Lliga Mediterrània , the Liga Mediterránea or La Liga del Mediterráneo, was a football league played in the Republican area of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The league, played out in early 1937, was won by FC Barcelona...
, football league played during Spanish Civil War - Mediterranean dietMediterranean dietThe Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of southern Italy, Crete and much of the rest of Greece in the 1960s....
, a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by traditional dietary patterns- Cuisine of the MediterraneanCuisine of the MediterraneanMediterranean cuisine is the food from the cultures adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea.Whether this is a useful category is disputed:The idea of the ‘standard Mediterranean’ .....
, the food from the cultures adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea
- Cuisine of the Mediterranean
- Mediterranean raceMediterranean raceThe Mediterranean race was one of the three sub-categories into which the Caucasian race and the people of Europe were divided by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, following the publication of William Z. Ripley's book The Races of Europe...
, a racial classification - Familial Mediterranean feverFamilial Mediterranean feverFamilial Mediterranean fever is a hereditary inflammatory disorder. FMF is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in MEFV, a gene which encodes a 781–amino acid protein denoted pyrin....
, a hereditary inflammatory disorder - Mediterranea (gastropod), a genus of snailSnailSnail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
- The "Mediterranean World" of Greco-Roman Classical antiquityClassical antiquityClassical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...
- Mediterranean Universities Union, association of universities based in the Mediterranean basin
- University "Mediterranean", university located in Podgorica, Montenegro
- The Miniature Mediterranean DonkeyDonkeyThe donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E...
See also
- Mediterranean Fleet (disambiguation)
- Mediterranean Squadron (disambiguation)
- Mediterranean Shearwater (disambiguation)