Forty seventh Regional Committee for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, October 2000

It is one of the largest features on the Eastern Mediterranean seafloor.

The Western Mediterranean covers an area of about 0.85 million km² (0.33 million mi²) and the Eastern Mediterranean about 1.65 million km² (0.64 million mi²).

The Red Sea is higher than the Eastern Mediterranean, so the canal serves as a tidal strait that pours Red Sea water into the Mediterranean.

I grew up in Latakia, which is a little sleepy city on the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel is located at at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia.

Venice continued to fight bitterly with the Ottoman Empire for control of outposts in the eastern Mediterranean.

A key part of the development process in the Eastern Mediterranean subregion will be played by SMEs.

These countries mutual hatred and suspicion was no less bitter and deep seated than that afflicting the Eastern Mediterranean.

The reason is that the future of Europe s security will be determined in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

In the Eastern Mediterranean, British and French ships would patrol up to the Dardanelles, but not in the Adriatic Sea.

In the Eastern Mediterranean subregion, Governments need to incorporate into their economic development efforts the necessary energy related and environmental concerns.

North South flows are already extremely low, with the southern and eastern Mediterranean countries receiving only 3 of global foreign direct investment.

However, similar white brined cheeses (often called white cheese in various languages) are found in the Eastern Mediterranean and around the Black Sea.

Member States of WHO are grouped into six regions relating to Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific and Europe.

Resolving the island s longstanding division would nest Cyprus more comfortably in the EU, and the economic effects would be manifold, extending throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

Natural gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are estimated to hold up to 122 trillion cubic feet, enough to supply the entire world for a year.

The political and security situation in the vast region between the Indus Valley and the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean is a cause for grave concern.

is geographically part of the Eastern Mediterranean, but may be included in Southern or Southeastern Europe because of its political, cultural, and historical ties with Europe.

It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and handles about 26 million tons of cargo a year.

They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region.

It is found in the waters in and around Europe, including the eastern Atlantic Ocean (from Norway to Senegal), the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea.

Turkey s neighborhood policy is devised to reintegrate Turkey into its immediate neighborhoods, including the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

A deepening of cooperation in the eastern Mediterranean would provide myriad economic opportunities, not least the many related to developing the region s cross border maritime gas reserves.

Al Khwārizmī corrected Ptolemy's gross overestimate for the length of the Mediterranean Sea from the Canary Islands to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Ptolemy overestimated it at 63 degrees of longitude, while al Khwarizmi almost correctly estimated it at nearly 50 degrees of longitude.

The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

The Eastern Mediterranean Office convened a meeting of experts in Bahrain in April 2005 to finalize the regional strategic plan of work on ageing and health for 2006 2015.

The EBRD made an important contribution to the economic transition process in Eastern Europe there s a good case for drawing on its experience and expertise to help the southern Mediterranean.

The Red Sea is generally saltier and more nutrient poor than the Atlantic, so the Red Sea species have advantages over Atlantic species in the salty and nutrient poor Eastern Mediterranean.

To date, eight countries from Northern Mediterranean and Central and Eastern Europe have adopted their NAPs, and one more country is expected to adopt its NAP by the end of 2005.

The Mediterranean Crucible

Mediterranean Action Plan

The sunny climate of the eastern Mediterranean draws a steady stream of tourists, and European Union membership in the south has pushed income levels for Greek Cypriots higher than the EU average.

In March 2003, George W. Bush launched his invasion of Iraq, not only squandering America s military strength, but also connecting all the individual crises between the eastern Mediterranean and the Indus Valley.

The European Mediterranean Sea basin includes much of North Africa, east central Africa (through the Nile River), Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the coastal areas of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.

By the year 400 Greek philosophy, art, literature and architecture had spread far and wide, with the numerous independent Greek colonies that had sprung up throughout the lands of the eastern Mediterranean.

Regional networks such as the Vector Resistance Networks in Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and South East Asia, as well as research institutions could play an active role in the evaluation of new products.

Invasive species have become a major component of the Mediterranean ecosystem and have serious impacts on the Mediterranean ecology, endangering many local and endemic Mediterranean species.

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Mediterranean Women's Studies Center

Definition The territory of Jordan can be defined by the history of its creation after the end of World War I, the League of Nations and redrawing of the borders of the Eastern Mediterranean littoral.

(b) Arab countries There is a need for the Governments in the Eastern Mediterranean subregion to undertake a considerable restructuring of selected industrial subsectors and of local enterprises that can develop an adequate export potential.

Imagining a New Mediterranean World

The eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean, the western Balkans, the Caspian region and the southern Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East are all areas where the West will achieve nothing or very little without Turkey s support.

The image comes from the Mediterranean.