Mediterranean Sea Facts For Kids

With its highly indented coastline and large number of islands, Greece has the longest Mediterranean coastline.

Eastern Mediterranean in Katip Çelebi's map (ﺁق دكز)

Greek (red) and Phoenician (yellow) colonies in antiquity c. the 6th century BC

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The port and fleet of Genoa in the early 14th century, by Quinto Cenni

The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, ended in victory for the European Holy League against the Ottoman Turks.

The bombardment of Algiers by the Anglo-Dutch fleet in support of an ultimatum to release European slaves, August 1816

Battle of the Nile during the French campaign in Egypt, August 1798

This composite image shows Earth's night lights as observed in 2016. The compositing technique selected the best cloud-free nights in each month over each land mass. The team has also reprocessed 2012 data with the new techniques so that researchers can compare and contrast light sources over the years. By late 2017, Román and colleagues hope to provide daily high-definition views of Earth at night.