Mediterranean Sea

noun

a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia. 2,400 miles (3,865 kilometers) long; 1,145,000 square miles (2,965,550 square kilometers); greatest known depth 14,436 feet (4,400 meters).

Mediterranean Sea

a large inland sea between S Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia: linked with the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar, with the Red Sea by the Suez Canal, and with the Black Sea by the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, and Bosporus; many ancient civilizations developed around its shores. Greatest depth: 4770 m (15 900 ft). Length: (west to east) over 3700 km (2300 miles). Greatest width: about 1370 km (850 miles). Area: (excluding the Black Sea) 2 512 300 sq km (970 000 sq miles) Ancient nameMare Internum

Mediterranean Sea

First recorded in 1550–60

Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there is one and only one real state—Israel.

One night in the summer of 1749, a waterspout appeared in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coast of Italy.

The United Nations bureaucracy now recognizes—at least in name—two "states" between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Russian navy relies on the Syrian port Tartus for access to the Mediterranean Sea.

Palomares was then a small fishing village and farming community located on the Mediterranean Sea.

The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.

The Mediterranean Sea in those days was infested by pirates sailing from the Moorish ports.

They sent out fast vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, and no merchant ship there was safe.

Not so far above where it runs into the Mediterranean Sea it is split up into many channels like the legs of the tower.

In the course of his many journeys Columbus visited all the principal ports of the Mediterranean Sea.

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