Mediterranean (disambiguation)

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

Mediterranean or Mediterranean sea may also refer to:

Geography and oceanography

• Mediterranean sea (oceanography), 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 forests, woodlands, and scrub, an ecoregion found in various parts of the world, named for the Mediterranean basin
• Mediterranean Ridge, a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea

Politics and military

• Mediterranean States, the two countries of Cyprus and Malta
• Mediterranean Union, 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

Business and corporate

• Mediterranean Cosmos, a mall shopping-centre in east Thessaloniki, Greece
• Mediterranean Harbor, one of the Tokyo Disney Sea's themed areas
• Ansa Mediterranean, an Italian news agency
• British Mediterranean Airways, an airline in the United Kingdom

Arts and literature

• Mediterranean noir, a literary style in fiction
• Mediterranean Revival architecture, a design style during the 20th century
• "The Mediterranean" (La Méditerranée), a major historical work by Fernand Braudel

Other uses

• Mediterranean Games, a multi-sport games held every four years
• Mediterranean League, football league played during Spanish Civil War
• Mediterranean diet, a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by traditional dietary patterns
  • Cuisine of the Mediterranean, the food from the cultures adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea
• Mediterranean race, a racial classification
• Familial Mediterranean fever, a hereditary inflammatory disorder
• Mediterranea (gastropod), a genus of snail
• The "Mediterranean World" of Greco-Roman Classical antiquity
• Mediterranean Universities Union, association of universities based in the Mediterranean basin
• University "Mediterranean", university located in Podgorica, Montenegro
• The Miniature Mediterranean Donkey

See also

• Mediterranean Fleet (disambiguation)
• Mediterranean Squadron (disambiguation)
• Mediterranean Shearwater (disambiguation)