Mediterranean (disambiguation)

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Mediterranean may refer to

• geographically, the Mediterranean Sea, a major body of water south of Europe, west of Asia, and north of Africa
  • List of islands in the Mediterranean
  • Mediterranean sea (oceanography), an oceanographic term to designate a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans.
  • The Mediterranean Basin, the European, Asian, and African land areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
  • The Mediterranean climate, a type of climate that resembles the weather in the Mediterranean basin, as well as parts of the west coasts on every continent
  • Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub
  • Mediterranean Ridge, a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea
• culturally, the "Mediderranean World" of Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity
  • For the history of the Mediterranean Basin, see the history of the Mediterranean region
  • The cuisine of the Mediterranean
  • The Mediterranean diet
• The Mediterranean race, a racial classification
• politically,
  • Mediterranean States, the two countries of Cyprus and Malta
  • Mediterranean Union
• militarily,
  • Mediterranean Fleet, fleets of several countries
  • Mediterranean Squadron, part of the United States Navy in the 1800s
  • Mediterranean pass, a document which identified a ship as being protected under a treaty with states of the Barbary Coast
  • Mediterranean Theater of Operations a major theatre of World War II

proper names

• Mediterranean Dialogue, a forum of cooperation between NATO and seven countries of the Mediterranean
• Familial Mediterranean fever
• The Mediterranean Cosmos, a mall shopping-centre in east Thessaloniki, Greece
• Mediterranean Games
• Mediterranean Harbor, one of the Tokyo DisneySea's themed areas
• Mediterranean League, football league played during Spanish Civil War
• Mediterranean noir, a literary style that employs elements of noir and hardboiled crime fiction in a Mediterranean setting
• Mediterranean Revival Style architecture, an eclectic design style that was first introduced in the United States around the turn of the nineteenth century, and came into prominence in the 1920s and 1930s
• Mediterranean Shearwater, the name used during the 1990s for what was then regarded as a polytypic species of Puffinus shearwater
• Ansa Mediterranean, an Italian news agency
• British Mediterranean Airways, an airline based at London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom