The expressions Basin the Mediterranean N and Mediterranean world refer more to the shores surrounding the sea than with itself, in the context of an ecological environment ( articles Animalia ) or in that of the development of the Mediterranean Civilization S.

This article makes it possible to release contours from them.

The Western Mediterranean

Seas

basin Algéro-of Provence ;

• France: Gulf of Lions ;

Islands

• archipelago of the Balearic Islands

• the Corsica
• archipelago of Malta :
• island of Malta
• Gozo : island of the nymph S of Calypso , first song of the Odyssey .

Country

• Tunisia : worsen of Carthage; Tunisia at the time medieval;
• Algeria : Numidie; Maurétanie
• Morocco : dynasties Almoravide and Almohade, Garden of Hespérides
• Spain : Iberian peninsula
• Andalusia ,
• Valence ,
• Catalonia
• France :
• Roussillon,
• Provence :
• Monaco
• Piedmont and Sardaigne' : to see States of Savoy

Strategic straits

• Straits of Gibraltar : concern the Atlantic Ocean
• Pillars of Hercules , set up during its tenth work .
• quoted of Gibraltar :

the pivot: Italy

Seas

• Western side:
• Sea Ligurienne ;
• Tyrrhenian Sea : populate sea of the Tyrrhéniens;
• Eastern side:
• Adriatic Sea , at the north of which is located the Lagune Venice;
• Gulf of Tarente leading to the Ionian sea .
• Ionian Sea , borrowed by the world hellenistic to join the Large Greece.

Islands

• to see the detailed article List of the principal islands of Italy
• Western side:
• Capri , in bay of Naples
• Sardinia
• Sicily : populate sea of the Sicanes;
• Isle of Elba
• Eastern side:

Places

• Empire Romain:the Roman Civilization under the Empire, dominated this geographical area and adapted it: the Romans called it “Mare Nostrum” .
• Roman Province: Liste compacts Roman provinces;
• Port of Ostie to supply Rome.

• Renaissance: Trecento, Quattrocento, Cinquecento.

• Genoa
• Pisa
• Naples
• Venice : Republic of Venice

Strategic straits

• Strait of Messine between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ionian Sea
• Charybde and Scylla of the Odyssey of Ulysses;
• Channel of Otranto between the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea ;

The Eastern Mediterranean

Seas

• Aegean Sea , bordering the Turkey;
• Gulf of Cyrénaïque , bordering the Libya;

Islands

• of the Adriatic Sea:
• the Cyclades
• of the Aegean Sea:

• the Crete

• Minoan Civilization;
• then related to the Greek world.

Country

• the Balkans:
• Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia-Herzégovine ;
• Albania ;
• Greece ;
• countries of the the Middle East, zone called Holy Land by the medieval Occident
• Syria : Country of Canaan; Séleucides;
• Lebanon : Phéniciens; Kingdom of Hebraic Tyr
• Civilization: Kingdom of Juda

• Egypt :

• Delta of the Nile : ancient Egypt;
• hellenistic Time: Egypt Macedonian & ptolémaïque Egypt;
• Roman Period;
• Othoman Period: the Mamelukes;

• Libya : Cyrénaïque;

Strategic straits

• Gulf and Channel of Corinth between the Ionian sea and the Aegean Sea .
• Strait of the Bosphorus , between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea
• Strait of Dardanelles , between the Marmara Sea and the Aegean Sea
• during Antiquity, the Hellespont of the Trojan .
• Suez Canal giving on the Red Sea, carries on the Indian Ocean.

See too

Related articles

• prone related detailed: Géostratégie of the Mediterranean basin;
• prone general, Pour military designs: Géostratégie .

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