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Nicolas Sanson, Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651. The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The Levant, including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus (also known as the Levant), Egypt, Greek Dodecanese and Anatolian Turkey. [11]
English: Location map of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 38.0° N; S: 29.0° N;
The Mediterranean Sea (/ ˌ m ɛ d ɪ t ə ˈ r eɪ n i ən / MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
The Mediterranean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea or located within the Mediterranean Basin. [1] Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa regions border the sea itself, two island nations completely located in it (Malta and Cyprus), in addition to two British Overseas Territories ...
The two biggest islands of the Mediterranean: Sicily (right) and Sardinia (top left), which are both part of Italy. The following is a list of islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The two main island countries in the region are Malta and Cyprus, while other countries with islands in the Mediterranean Sea include Croatia, Italy, France, Greece ...
Boundaries of the Levant Basin, or Levantine Basin (US EIA) The Leviathan gas field is quite central in the south-eastern corner, the Levantine Basin. [3] [4]To the west of the Levantine Deep Marine Basin is the Nile Delta Basin, followed by the Herodotus Basin, 130,000 km 2 (50,000 sq mi) large and up to 3,200 m (10,500 ft) deep, [5] which – at a possible age of 340 million years – is ...
The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea this week as the U.S. positions warships to try to keep fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon from escalating ...
Physical and political map of the Mediterranean basin. In biogeography, the Mediterranean basin (/ ˌ m ɛ d ɪ t ə ˈ r eɪ n i ən / MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən), also known as the Mediterranean region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which ...