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 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 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
• 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)
• All pages with titles beginning with Mediterranean
• All pages with titles containing Mediterranean