Why Is It Called Mediterranean?
Why Is It Called Mediterranean? The term Mediterranean derives from the Latin mediterraneus, ‘inland’ (medius, ‘middle’ + terra, ‘land, earth’), in Greek “mesogeios”. … It was, for example, commonly called Mare Nostrum (Latin, Our Sea), and occasionally Mare Internum by the Romans. Who named the Mediterranean sea? The Romans called it Mare Magnum (“Great Sea”)