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ARTICLES RELATED TO Mediterranean Sea - Subdivisions | | | |  Mediterranean Sea - Subdivisions: Encyclopedia II - Mediterranean Sea - SubdivisionsThe Mediterranean Sea is sub-divided into a number of smaller seas, each with their own designation (from west to east):
the Alboran Sea, between Spain and Morocco,
the Catalan Sea, between the Iberian peninsula and the Balearic Islands,
the Ligurian Sea between Corsica and Liguria (Italy),
the Tyrrhenian Sea enclosed by Sardinia, Italian peninsula and Sicily,
the Adriatic Sea between the Italian peninsula and the Dalmatian coast,
the Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece,
the ...
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| | | | Mediterranean Sea - Subdivisions: Encyclopedia II - Mediterranean Sea - Name The term Mediterranean derives from the Latin mediterraneus, 'inland' (medius, 'middle' + terra, 'land, earth'), in Greek "mesogeios".
The Mediterranean Sea has been known by a number of alternative names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called Mare Nostrum (Latin, Our Sea) by the Romans. In the Bible, it is referred to as the Great Sea or the Western Sea. In modern Hebrew, it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of t ...
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| | | | Mediterranean Sea - Subdivisions: Encyclopedia II - Mediterranean Sea - Geology The geology of the Mediterranean is complex, involving the break-up and then collision of the African and Eurasian plates, and the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the late Miocene when the Mediterranean dried up.
The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1,500 m and the deepest recorded point is 5267 meters (about 3.27 miles) in the Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. The coastline extends for 46,000 km. A shallow submarine ridge (the Strait of Sicily) between the island of Sicily and the coast of Tunisia divides the sea in two main subr ...
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