Western, about half way up the coast.
Western, about half way up the coast.
Eastern
Rome is located on the western coast of the Italian peninsula.
The Italian boot-shaped peninsula.
Rome was located (and still is) on the western coast of Italy, also called the Tyrrhenian coast.
The never was/is a Roman peninsula. Rome was/is in the Italian peninsula. Italy has lies in between the western basin and the eastern basin of the Mediterranean. This made it easier for the Romans to expand into both the western and the eastern Mediterranean and to control both basins of the Mediterranean.
The Apennine Mountains
Apennine Peninsula, Iberian Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula, Crimean Peninsula, Jultand Peninsula, Scandinavian Peninsula, Peninsula of Brittany. A few small ones: Kerch Peninsula, Attican Peninsula, Thracian Peninsula, Campanian Peninsula, Peloponnesian Peninsula.
The Persian Gulf is located in Western Asia, between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
Italy lies at the centre of the Mediterranean, between its eastern and western basins. This made it easier to control the western and eastern Mediterranean at the same time.
Italy is a peninsula in the centre the Mediterranean Sea, between the western and eastern basins of this sea. Rome lies of the cost Thyrrenian Sea (the western coast), in central Italy.
Western, Eastern & Balkan (Italian), and to a lesser extent Middle Eastern.