Mediterranean (disambiguation)

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 seas, 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
 * "The Mediterranean", a 1933 poem by Allen Tate
 * 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