The Mediterranean Sea is a major body of water south of Europe, west of Asia and north of Africa.

Mediterranean may also refer to:

Geography

  • Mediterranean seas, an oceanographic term to designate a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans
  • Mediterranean Basin, the European, Asian, and African land areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
  • Mediterranean climate, a type of climate that resembles the weather in the Mediterranean basin
  • Mediterranean Europe, those European countries that have a Mediterranean coastline
  • Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub, an ecoregion found in various parts of the world, named for the Mediterranean basin
  • A list of Mediterranean countries

Politics and military

  • Mediterranean States, the two countries of Cyprus and Malta
  • Union for the Mediterranean, a political partnership of European, African and Middle Eastern countries
  • Mediterranean Dialogue, a forum of cooperation between NATO and seven countries of the Mediterranean
  • Mediterranean Theater of Operations, a major theatre of World War II
  • Mediterranean pass, a document which identified a ship as being protected under a treaty with states of the Barbary Coast
  • Méditerranée, the name of a historical department of the First French Empire in present-day Italy

Other uses

  • "The Mediterranean" (La Méditerranée), a historical work by Fernand Braudel
  • "The Mediterranean", a 1933 poem by Allen Tate
  • Ansa Mediterranean, an Italian news agency
  • Mediterranean League, a football league played in Spain during the Spanish Civil War
  • Mediterranean diet, a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by traditional dietary patterns of Greece, Southern Italy, Spain and Portugal
  • Mediterranean cuisine, the food from the cultures adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea
  • Mediterranean race, a historical racial classification
  • Familial Mediterranean fever, a hereditary inflammatory disorder
  • Mediterranean University, a university located in Podgorica, Montenegro

See also

  • British Mediterranean Airways, an airline in the United Kingdom
  • Mediterranean Ridge, a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea
  • Mediterranean noir, a literary style in fiction
  • Mediterranean Revival architecture, a design style during the 20th century
  • Classical antiquity
  • Mediterranea (film), a 2015 film
  • Mediterranean Universities Union, an association of universities based in the Mediterranean basin
  • Mediterranean Grand Prix, a motor race held in Sicily from 1962 until 1998
  • Mediterranean Games, a multi-sport games held every four years
  • Mediterranean Harbor, one of the Tokyo Disney Sea's themed areas
  • List of Mediterranean fleets
  • Mediterranean Squadron (disambiguation)
  • Mediterranean Shearwater (disambiguation)