Historically, movement inland from the western Mediterranean coast was difficult.

Benidorm (, , ) is a coastal town in Alicante, Spain, on the Western Mediterranean.

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).

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

His forces were deployed solely on the Western Front and the Mediterranean throughout the war.

And there is real life. Boys in Western football shirts mainly Lionel Messi of Barcelona. Restaurants overlooking the Mediterranean.

Intense bilateral exchanges between states north and south of the Western Mediterranean have accompanied the Barcelona process, which created a comprehensive dialogue between the Union and its Mediterranean neighbors, including association agreements.

Wine was consumed on a daily basis in most of France and all over the Western Mediterranean wherever grapes were cultivated.

Israel or , officially the State of Israel (, , , , ), is a country in Western Asia, situated at the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Western Sahara resembled an occupied Kuwait, situated near Europe and the Mediterranean sea, in Africa and at the heart of the Maghreb.

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

It has been a crossroad of influences of the western culture and the east ever since division of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire as well as of the Mitteleuropa and the Mediterranean culture.

The loss of Africa meant that soon, Byzantine control of the Western Mediterranean was challenged by a new and expanding Arab fleet, operating from Tunisia.

Cultural exchange took place between the Greek colonies of Magna Graeca and the young Roman Republic before Rome's rise to dominance of the Western Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean Crucible

Mediterranean Action Plan

It is through Homer that virtually all Western readers first encounter the Mediterranean world its islands and shores and peoples knit together by diplomacy, trade, marriage, oil, wine, and long ships.

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.

in the Mediterranean region

Mediterranean Women's Studies Center

The DESTIN study is aimed, inter alia, at developing a traffic forecasting model in order to identify priority projects for the development of a strategic integrated transport network in the Western Mediterranean region.

Imagining a New Mediterranean World

France has a common history and geography with the countries on the southern Mediterranean shore. The duty to intervene and the cost of indifference is probably higher for France than for any other Western country.

The image comes from the Mediterranean.

Reaffirming the primary role of the Mediterranean countries in strengthening and promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region,

Reaffirming the primary role of the Mediterranean countries in strengthening and promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region,

Miss Mediterranean 2011 On June 4, 2011 Sara represented Egypt at the 2011 Miss Mediterranean pageant held in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Reaffirming the primary role of the Mediterranean countries in strengthening and promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region,

You might argue that the story, the history of civilizations, has been civilizations gathered around seas with the first ones around the Mediterranean, the more recent ones in the ascendents of Western power around the Atlantic.

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.

Taher Pasha convinced the National Olympic Committees of the Mediterranean countries 1948 Summer Olympics held in London to create the Mediterranean Games.

Finally, the Mediterranean and the broader Middle East.

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.

Two and a Half Cheers for the Mediterranean Union

The Mediterranean model, in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

(Signed) Latifa Aït Baala Chairperson Euro Mediterranean Women's Committee

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.

Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development

Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters (Special, 2001)

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.

The Programme for the Assessment and Control of Pollution in the Mediterranean Region (MED POL), the marine pollution assessment and control component of the Mediterranean Action Plan Barcelona Convention, recently prepared an assessment of the situation related to coastal litter in the Mediterranean.

No longer was the Mediterranean Europe's most important trade route.