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First a little correction, "Mare Nostrum" means our sea, not your sea. The Romans called it "our sea" because they controlled all the territories bordering it and all the islands in it.
Mare nostrum was the Roman's nickname for the Mediterranean. It meant our sea.
Mare nostrum referred to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Romans did not call the Mediterranean "Your Sea". They called it "Our Sea", or Mare Nostrum, because they gained much power around the Mediterranean Sea, which therefore justified the Romans calling it their own sea.
Mare nostrum.
It is mare nostrum (our sea).
the Mediterranean Sea was called "mare nostrum" by the ancient Romans. "mare" is the Latin word for "sea", and "nostrum" means "our", so the Mediterraneans thought of that sea as "Our sea.) You can think of "mare" when you meet maritime, mariner, submarine.........
The heart of the Roman Empire was the mediterranean, which they called mare nostrum (our sea).
Mare nostrum means our sea. It was a Roman nickname for the Mediterranean.our sea, esp. the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
The Romans called the Mediterranean sea mare nostrum which means "our sea" in Latin. This was because Rome ruled everything in it and around it. The Mediterranean was literally a lake in the middle of the empire.
"Mare nostrum" means "our sea" and the Romans used the term for the Mediterranean Sea. Once they gained control of all the Mediterranean countries, it was literally their sea.
The term mare nostrum means "our sea" and that's literally what it was to the Romans. The Roman empire ruled all the land on all the coastlines that bordered the Mediterranean plus all the islands in it.