Press TV
| Feb 21, 2013
Iran, evidently feeling confident about future relations with Syria, is working on a $10 billion project natural gas pipeline to its ally, from where it aims to export gas to Europe. Iraq has now given approval for the pipeline from the vast Sout...
Press TV
| Jul 31, 2012
Russia says it will evacuate its servicemen deployed at its naval base in the port of Tartus in Syria, if it comes under attack. The Navy chief Viktor Chirkov expressed concern for the safety of the base in the light of intense battles for the co...
ABC News (Australia)
| Jan 18, 2012
As hopes fade for the missing, relatives of victims of the Costa Concordia disaster are outraged by Captain Francesco Schettino's claims that he fell into a lifeboat.
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 16, 2012
Rescuers have found another body in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia, bringing to seven the current death toll following a maritime accident off the coast of Italy, the daily Italian newspaper La Stampa said. While the captain is being blamed...
IDF
| Nov 4, 2011
Raw footage released by the IDF of Israeli Navy soldiers boarding two flotilla vessels which were en-route to the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to break Israel's blockade. "The boarding was carried out following numerous calls to the activists onboard...
IDF
| Nov 4, 2011
Footage released by the IDF of contact between the Israeli Navy and one of the ships from the latest Gaza aid flotilla. An officer says the ship can dock at the Ashdod Port and transfer its supplies by land to Gaza. "The ship refused to comply," s...
Press TV
| Nov 4, 2011
Press TV's London correspondent Hassan Ghani reports from the latest flotilla attempting to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade, minutes before the IDF intercepted it. At the time of the call, the Tahrir was being ...
Press TV
| Nov 3, 2011
Quickly and quietly the Tahrir slips out of its dock in the Turkish port city of Fethiye. It's joined by a second boat, the Saorse, on a mission which has been kept secret until now. The two boats are en route to Palestine, part of what's being du...
Democracy Now!
| Nov 2, 2011
At the end of our live broadcast today, Democracy Now! received breaking news from a source aboard the Tahrir, a ship involved in the "Freedom Waves to Gaza" flotilla. Without any public notice, the ship left from an undisclosed port in the easter...
— Jul 10, 2012 at 09:06 pm
...port of Tartus. $1 billion plan Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of General Staff Gen. Benny Gantz have proposed a plan ...
— May 27, 2012 at 08:58 am
...in its territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea bordering with Israel and Cyprus, Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) President Moham...
— Jan 17 at 12:31 pm
...Sea of Oman. Iran has threatened to close the strait over Western sanctions targeting its nuclear program, but has not repeated the threats late...
— Apr 2 at 10:02 pm
...the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean, crucial to oil and gas trade. The second is the uprising in Syria. First it was thought that Bashar al-A...
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, although it is usually identified as a completely separate body of water.
The name Mediterranean is derived from the Latin mediterraneus, meaning "inland" or "in the middle of the land". It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km², but its connection to the Atlantic is only 14 km wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.
The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1,500 m and the deepest recorded point is 5,267 m in the Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea.
It was an important route for merchants and travelers of ancient times that allowed for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region. The history of the Mediterranean region is crucial to understanding the origins and development of many modern societies. "For the three quarters of the globe, the Mediterranean Sea is similarly the uniting element and the centre of World History."
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