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Mediterranean Sea 

                   

The Mediterranean sea is the largest inland sea in the world, extends for over 2000 miles from the Strait of Gibraltar eastward to Palestine. It falls naturally into two basins separated by a submarine ridge joining southern Italy & Tunisia. From this ridge rise the island of Sicily & Malta, occupying an important strategic position between the two Mediterranean basins.

 

 The Mediterranean sea has played an important part in history, for around its shores the first great empires were established, each in turn playing its part in the cultural development of the world. some of great empires which at various periods dominated lands bordering the Mediterranean were the Egyptian, Phoenicians, Persians, Assyrian, Greek & Roman empires. The Roman empire at one time ruled all the lands bordering both the eastern & western Mediterranean which virtually became a " Roman Sea".