Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea

the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

• mare nostrum — (our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans

• sea — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

• Cyprus — an island in the eastern Mediterranean
• Crete, Kriti — the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
• Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates — a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
• Sardinia, Sardegna — an island in the Mediterranean west of Italy
• Sicily, Sicilia — the largest island in the Mediterranean
• Corse, Corsica — an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
• Malta — a strategically located island south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
• Abukir, Abukir Bay — a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
• Adriatic, Adriatic Sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
• Aegean, Aegean Sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
• Gulf of Antalya — a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey
• Gulf of Sidra — wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya
• Ionian Sea — an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
• Ligurian Sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica