How To Use Mediterranean In A Sentence

No matter that there were no green beans or zucchinies or that bok choy is Asian not Mediterranean, minestrone is primarily a vegetable soup and so long as you have a couple of primary flavours right, the rest will take care of itself. At My Table
Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
The pylon is to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum featuring relics uncovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
The art installation suggests the continuity and fragility of Mediterranean civilization, reminding us of the simultaneous remoteness and seamlessness of the past.

Everywhere one feels the influence of the Mediterranean and particularly on the specific xerophilous flora and fauna of the region.
Cristalhombre wrote me asking for further references on "foodie" places at Lakeside after my review of the wonderful Tabarka Restaurant featuring splendid Spanish Mediterranean seafood from the Alicante Region and I told him I knew of few places that met those standards at Lakeside but Dawg has just discovered another place that is new and special beyond belief so here goes: Cuisine From The Costa Blanca
The region's Mediterranean style climate and annual water deficit has led to extensive calcrete development.
During changeable weather, the temperature can veer from sub-Mediterranean to Siberian.
Experts have linked the harder rains to the warming of the Mediterranean, which results in higher humidity. Times, Sunday Times
This was especially valuable at a time when curious currencies circulated freely throughout the Mediterranean, including coins of values that were not self-evident. The English Is Coming!
The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
Later in the restaurant, as we ate hummus, baba ghanoush, wrapped grape leaves, and other Mediterranean delicacies, the four of us marveled over this strange request. Fair Game
For a Mediterranean mix, place fresh basil leaves, cherry tomatoes, zucchini slices and fresh radicchio in a baggie.
The Camargue region of France on the Mediterranean is a fascinating place but I´ll tell you what. Ajijic as Saintes Maries de la Mer
France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral The 2001 CIA World Factbook
Some historians studying the brutal battles for the Mediterranean have ended by asking an almost unmentionable question, which Woodall's plain account does not address: should Malta have been held at all, against such odds?
If the wind is blowing in from the east then sea fret hits even when the rest of old Blighty is basking in conditions more akin to the Mediterranean.
Greeks were everywhere -- swarthy men in sea-boots and tam-o'-shanters, hatless women in bright colors, hordes of sturdy children, and all speaking in outlandish voices, crying shrilly and vivaciously with the volubility of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER XI
The saltbush Atriplex halimus is a chenopodiaceous plant well adapted to dry saline habitats and widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin.
There's nothing staid about the all-white La Scalinatella in Capri, one of the "airiest" hotels around with terraces that open onto the Mediterranean. Ten Must-Visit European Hotels
Jutting out into the northern Mediterranean, the Portofino headland is a piece of natural unspoilt beauty standing hand in hand with some pretty Italian architecture.
Thanks to budget flights, campers can now leave their car at home and let the plane take the strain, with the fly-drive option proving attractive for those wanting to travel as far as the Mediterranean.
Although tsunamigenic earthquakes in the Mediterranean are smaller than the biggest ones around the Pacific rim, Magnitude 8 events have been recorded, such as the 1303 Crete quake whose tsunami devastated Heraklion and Alexandria. BBC News - Home
Nearby was the Bay of Naples, an arm of the blue Mediterranean.
The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.
To complement the Mediterranean menu, Mr. Cruz aims for diversity on his wine list, which includes a no-dosage Champagne, a Grand Cru Sylvaner from Alsace and a dessert wine from Uruguay. Now on Tap: Bubbly by the Glass
Get close enough to see its pale and dusty blue bloom and you get a lovely whiff of the Mediterranean.
The relevant pattern of that maritime conflict in the Mediterranean region had not begun then; but, it expressed a pattern which is notable, still today, as being continued through the time of what were called the Punic Wars, and beyond. LaRouche's Latest
The beaches and seaside towns of the Mediterranean coast are less than an hour away. Times, Sunday Times
Aedes albopictus and potential for involvement in arbovirus cycles in the Mediterranean basin. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The Mediterraneans, like the leghorn, tend to be more feisty and flighty.
Where Mediterranean fruit fly is a potential problem, bait should be laid six weeks before picking.
As the film begins, a fishing boat pulls a corpse-like Bourne out of the Mediterranean Sea; he is, as his name underlines, reborn in this instant.
Made from the inner bark of the Mediterranean cork oak tree, cork can be cut repeatedly from trees that may be hundreds of years old.
They go well with the strong Mediterranean flavours of anchovy, garlic, capers, extra virgin olive oil, rosemary and oregano, and Greek cheeses such as feta and halloumi.
The veiling of women by scarf or hood, and their seclusion, became a mark of honour and social status in cities of the Middle East and Mediterranean world in the centuries before the Common Era.
During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
Cruise the Mediterranean in unaccustomed splendour aboard the Royal Clipper, the only square-sailed full-rigged ship in the world with five masts.
The approach is via steep steps through lush Mediterranean vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
If you still haven't had your fill of culture you can give your holiday an extra dimension by sailing across the Mediterranean - to Egypt.
His predilection for gray-greens, gray-pinks, pale ochers, browns, blacks and a luminous cobalt blue call up archaic Mediterranean origins, rusticated walls and early Italian frescoes.
They go well with the strong Mediterranean flavours of anchovy, garlic, capers, extra virgin olive oil, rosemary and oregano, and Greek cheeses such as feta and halloumi.
The cause is a plume of Mediterranean air making its way through the country. Times, Sunday Times
The nineteen-year-old in question is precociously hirsute on account of his Mediterranean parentage.
Alien species such as the Mediterranean blue mussel have been introduced through ballast water, bilge water and mariculture operations. Benguela Current large marine ecosystem
There was a lot of new information about the importance of fiber, what we call glycemic index, the good fats, the Mediterranean oils. CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2007
Compact, sleek and low-slung, it has the air of a car cornering at speed around a Mediterranean corniche even when it's parked outside your local Tesco.
For example, Caucasians whose families came from Northern Europe are more likely to have cystic fibrosis; African-Americans are more likely to have sickle-cell disease; people of Southeast Asian or Mediterranean background are more likely to have anemias known as thalassemias; and people of Ashkenazi Jewish, French-Canadian, or Cajun background are more likely than others to experience Tay-Sachs disease and several other conditions. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
As confirmation, the classic Italian cookbook the Silver Spoon gives no fewer than 10 versions although admittedly, one of these is a minestrone alla russa – aka borsch: one from Puglia, in the far south, based on their beloved turnip tops, or cime di rapa, a Neapolitan take heavy with Mediterranean peppers and aubergines, which makes an interesting contrast with a recipe from Milan, with its bacon lardons, parmesan and sage. How to cook perfect minestrone soup
The smallness of her universe melted away and she saw herself traveling — through exotic lands she so longed to see, to the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic seas, to the vast deserts of the African continent, where the lions sprawled among the trees, and elephants tromped the veldt. Second Chance
But German malariologist Erich Martini had studied the habits of the local malaria vector, Anopheles labranchiae, in depth, and he knew that inundating the region with the Mediterranean's salty waters would allow A. labranchiae, which can thrive in brackish water, to ﬂourish. Gizmodo
Another note that stands out is that of labdanum, a resinous, ambery oleoresin from the rockrose bushes also grown on the Mediterranean mountains and hillsides and a pulsating undercurrent of costus, with its musky goat-like horns that is perhaps the reason why Pan jumps into the picture. Archive 2008-06-01
Though Romans destroyed Carthage in the Punic Wars, Roman legend traced the very origin of Rome to the Carthanginian mother-city, as shown by the story of Aeneas, who came directly across the Mediterranean from there, to found Rome. Archive 2008-04-01
A closely related Mediterranean fish, with similar characteristics and uses, is Uranoscopus scaber, the stargazer, so called because its eyes look upwards even more markedly than those of the weevers.
This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia. Enjoy the Ride
Australian military history abounds with such examples of valour, from the battlefields of Europe to Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific.
The unit had been stealthily airdropped at the Mediterranean beach, and had spent four hours making their way inland along the Tiber River to the city.
Lastly, we have the morocco leather, so called because it was brought from Morocco, in Africa, and still we get the best from thence, and from the Mediterranean ports of the Levant -- whence comes another name for the best of this favorite leather, "Levant morocco," which is the skin of the mountain goat, and reckoned superior to all other leathers. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
The Mediterranean vegetable garden includes an old water tank as well as displays of rosemary, thyme, pumpkins, figs, globe artichokes, olives and grapevines.
La Luc amused himself at intervals with discoursing, and pointing out the situations of considerable ports on the coast, and the mouths of the rivers that, after wandering through Provence, disembogue themselves into the Mediterranean. The Romance of the Forest
This is injustice, it's a clear aggression and it is uncalculated risk for its consequences on the Mediterranean and Europe.
One of the great Mediterranean cities can now be reached with low-cost airline Jet2, by passengers flying from Yorkshire.
During the dry Mediterranean summers most Albinaria species aestivate attached to rocks and their unintentional human-assisted transport on building materials have been documented. Archive 2006-01-01
The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile
There are some of those most densely coloured of sea-birds, Mediterranean Gulls with their deep black cap and blood-red bill of executioners, puffing and rolling against allcomers. Observer's Books for ever
Asia minor(A peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is generally coterminous with Asian Turkey and is usually considered synonymous with Anatolia.
Sloping down from the Judean hills toward the plain of Philistia and the Mediterranean Sea is the Shefelah, or Lowlands, a section of Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
This suggests that most phlomis, including the shrubby ones from the Mediterranean, are hardy. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Rumina saharica is one of the land snail species with decollated shells originating from the Mediterranean area. Reproduction of Rumina saharica
The word dogs is a strong insult in the Mediterranean world since dogs are generally regarded as scavengers.
Katsuwonus pelamis, a cosmopolitan fish of the tuna family, is common in the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic, but less so in the Mediterranean.
Having reached the limit of Mediterranean traditions of navigation and map-making, the Portuguese employed the services of Jewish scholars to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and stars.
The weather is fine over the entire Mediterranean coast, but the tramontane is blowing over the coast of Languedoc.
Like other peoples of the Mediterranean region, Damascenes favored a relatively dramatic style of self-presentation which made plenty of allowance for swearing and other flamboyant forms of expression.
All the arts received some attention in classical Mediterranean civilization. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
It is said that it is good for the skin and Greeks and peoples of the Mediterranean flavoured their foods, such as rice, fish, cheese, and soups with it.
Experts have linked the harder rains to the warming of the Mediterranean, which results in higher humidity. Times, Sunday Times
Executive chef Pat Riley, whose resume includes Toronto's North 44 and Avalon restaurants, says his open-concept kitchen will offer market-based French-Mediterranean dishes.
I especially love white geraniums and have just potted up some with some blue lobelia as I love that Mediterranean colour combination. Vivace - French Word-A-Day
From the kitchen window, I could see a trapezoidal sliver of Mediterranean water, which was a different color every day, a giant mood ring for the city. Day of Honey
On this latter point the earl of Shelburne rcmonftrated veiy warmly with his colleagues, urging in forciUe language the fupinenefs, the cowardice, the tij-eachery, the befotted ftupidity of permitting Lfiwis to rob the Corficans of their ina« lienable rights, and to overturn the balance of power by annexing to his dominions an ifland that would give him coniiderable in - fluence in the affiurs of Italy, and a dangerous extenfion of con - troul over the trade of the Mediterranean. Memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke
I believe the practice is a Christianization of the elaborate contractual rites of the various Nordic peoples who received the Faith in the period after Rome's fall and is thus a somewhat alien addition to our predominantly Mediterranean liturgical roots, though its antiquity does also give it a certain merit as well. Liturgical Wedding Crashers
Since that time most of the countries bordering the Mediterranean have made spearfishing with the aid of aqualungs illegal.
Marlborough then ploughed out into the stormy Mediterranean and passed the rest of the Task Group, her arrival at the Cyprus training grounds being heralded by a severe electrical storm and waterspouts.
The approach is via steep steps through lush Mediterranean vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
Asia Minor, or Anatolia, is a peninsula stretching westward from the Armenian mountains to the Aegean Sea, with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south. 7. Asia Minor, c. 3000-333 B.C.E
Earlier archaeologists, most notably the British prehistorian Glyn Daniel, had concluded from stylistic similarities and differences among stone monuments that the earliest of them were constructed on Crete, Malta, and other sites in the Mediterranean. The Goddess and the Bull
The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering. The Shrinkage of the Planet
Shaded by two Mediterranean oaks, it is bordered along its edge by a brimming blue-glazed swimming pool that shoots off into the garden.
The Oyster Residence is a seven-bedroom eco-retreat perched on a rocky promontory and surrounded by a pine forest that comes all the way down to the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.
The ships' timber structures had rotted away in the Mediterranean. The Sun
Then there was sort of a saffrony-paprika flavor to the shrimp that permeated the whole thing, keeping it safely savory and wholly Mediterranean. Spain
Metal helmets were worn by hoplites, the foot soldiers of ancient Greece, and elsewhere in eastern Mediterranean civilizations.
ultramarine" has been derived, is most remarkable in the Mediterranean, that sea of delights; but it is met with, all along the rock-bound coasts of the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, extending through the The Two Admirals
Built using prototypes designed for sunny Mediterranean climes, the houses became traps for dampness.
After moving to St-Tropez in 1892, Signac, a committed anarchist, began to paint politicized pastorals juxtaposing north and south and promoting a leftwing vis ion of the Mediterranean shore.
The Capital, known historically as Rabbath Ammon, is one of the world's oldest inhabited cities, and was an important crossroads connecting the Arabian Peninsula in the south to Damascus in the north, and the "Syrian desert" in the east to Palestine and the Mediterranean in the west. TravelDailyNews.com
The Mediterranean port city of Marseille has been particularly hard hit, with a strike by garbage collectors leaving the streets buried in heaps of trash. France Retirement Protests Turn Violent
The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean.
Chef Idris Caldora offers an inspired menu that captures the spirit of the Mediterranean.
Two of the most celebrated stood upon each side of the Mediterranean at the noted passage called fretum Gaditanum -- κατα τα ακρα του πορθμου. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
A keen sailor, he single-handedly built a 50 foot glass fibre trimaran over seven years, and spent many happy years sailing it in the Channel and the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean members of the euro will now suffer the agony of austerity. Times, Sunday Times
Here I use it again, not only to warm up a soupy Mediterranean vegetable stew with chickpeas and fennel, but also to add a little chutzpah to the fish.
The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the west were in this sense colonized subjects, just as many Slavic groups were in the east and Mediterranean peoples to the south.
People of, perhaps, Mediterranean or South Asian or Middle Eastern descent, the Irish known as "Black Irish," certain Slavic peoples. Archive 2007-09-01
The gulet cruise from Marmaris to Fethiye on the Turkish Mediterranean coast with Karen, Andy, Tamara and Ryan, friends from Australia who were travelling at the same time. The noughties in review – part 1 « Mad Dave and Lil
A medfly plague would be even worse: if Mediterranean fruit flies were to take hold in California and continental America, it is estimated that they would cause 1.5 billion dollars in damages annually. The Fruit Hunters
Stuff this Mediterranean-inspired flatbread with lettuce, chicken, tomatoes and a dab of mayonnaise for a grown-up treat.
Nato also has dispatched seven frigates, a destroyer, and an auxiliary oiler to the Mediterranean to take the place of American naval assets there.
Nuremberg was also a major entrepôt for wine, although its function lay in the distribution of imports, mostly of red wine, from the Mediterranean.
The Upper Miocene evaporite basins in the Mediterranean region – a study in paleo-oceonography. Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
Its artisans produced the Mediterranean world's most elegant silks, carved ivories and gold enamels. The Glories of Byzantium
`Karl seems to find his Mediterranean interests in constant need of close, personal supervision. CORMORANT
Watch Karl Rove take a dip in the pool, layer upon layer of oily, crenulated back fat rippling in the Mediterranean breeze. Uh oh.
The ships' timber structures had rotted away in the Mediterranean. The Sun
The ecoregion does not include the upland vegetation of the Rhodope Mountains (Rhodope montane mixed forests ecoregion) or the sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and meso - to thermo-Mediterranean pine forests to the south of the Rhodopes (part of the Aegean & West Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forest ecoregion). Balkan mixed forests
The fauna of this area is mainly characterised by Mediterranean species, with some exceptionally interesting ones such as a coleopter beetle which is native to the sierra and various species of molluscs and heteropterous insects.
The terraced terrain near the Mediterranean ferry is terrific.
and plants from tropical regions including certain palms can be surprisingly winter hardy, but plants from the Mediterranean such as cistus and rosemary have increased vulnerability and are much more unreliable. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Many parts of the Mediterranean are facing an environmental crisis as wine makers stop using traditional cork stoppers for their wine bottles.
She was hoping that the Mediterranean climate would restore her to full health.
A solitary grey whale has been spotted in the Mediterranean thousands of miles from its home waters in the Pacific, stunning marine biologists.
The food was modern British with a hint of Mediterranean and served in a tapas style. Times, Sunday Times
What is more, Italy's history of lax economic management has come to be associated in Germany with a cultural stereotype: Of profligate Mediterraneans who are more interested in leading la dolce vita than in gathering their nuts for winter. Italy's Draghi Aims to Ease German Doubt
At the time Portugal was the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean.
The dried exudate of certain plants, as that of the Mediterranean ash tree, formerly used as a laxative.
His garden has a ‘contemplative side’, with plants from China and Japan, including maples and Himalayan poppies, and a sunnier, Mediterranean side, with euphorbia, osteospermum, sedums, cistus and lavenders.
While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
There are cases of divers getting the bends as they returned through the Alps after diving the Mediterranean.
Always a sucker for shellfish, I chose king prawns in a Mediterranean sauce as a starter at £5.
This is a far cry from a more leisured age when elegant vessels with teak decks with highly polished brass pottered about the Mediterranean making unhurried stops at little Aegean ports.
One promising arrangement could be a confederation of independently governed areas or cantons, to be established in the territory between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean
He was a big-boned man of perhaps sixty, with a thick black moustache and a head of curly Mediterranean hair.
Francemetropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral Climate
Its wild relatives, known as oleaster forms, are generally indistinguishable from feral types and constitute a common component of the Mediterranean vegetation.
With traditional shop-keeping, this Elgin institution has been a purveyor of fine wines, cheeses, meats, Mediterranean goodies, unusual breads and other epicurean delights for nearly a century.
Mediterranean Mussels ($9), in olive oil, vinegar and pimenton (smoked paprika). Jay Weston: Why Bazaar's Spanish Chef Got a James Beard Award
The Croesus was a Mediterranean casino cruise so exclusive that even the rich and famous needed written invitations just to board. The Sinister Six Combo
As in most other Mediterranean orchids, vegetative characters are similar across species and do not distinguish them.
Soon I was looking at vivid red sponges in the overhangs at the base of the reef, along with peacock worms and the squirrelfish which have successfully invaded the eastern Mediterranean from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.
The two divisions of the original Riviera, both of which border the Ligurian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, are the Italian Riviera and the French Riviera. Retirement on the Mexican Riviera
Use of other forms of tobacco, such as shisha and smokeless tobacco, is also increasing among women in many countries, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. WN.com - Articles related to Preventing Tobacco Addiction Among Our Women
She had missed the glorious blooms of the Mediterranean spring.
This home's low-pitched, tiled roof is the hallmark of the Mediterranean style.
In the eastern Mediterranean a wind blows out from Libya and Egypt, known as the Khamsin.
British submarines conducted 2,223 patrols in home waters, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Far East.
Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.
It teeters on the cusp of the Mediterranean, offering endless vistas of blue-green sea, bucketfuls of fresh air, and crumbling, salty buildings of the old town that still manage to retain their elegance.
Water is a precious commodity on the dry east Mediterranean island, which desalinates more than a fifth of its household needs from the sea.
According to the Pentagon, five nations including the United States, France, Britain, Canada and Italy are participating in the strikes, and the coalition has 25 ships in the Mediterranean.
In his book of 'British Fishes,' Mr. Yarrell states that 'the anchovy is a common fish in the Mediterranean, from Greece to Gibraltar, and was well known to the Greeks and Romans, by whom the liquor prepared from it, called garum, was in great estimation.' The Book of Household Management
As we have explained more fully in a previous book*, we inherit this system of historical pigeonholes from Christendom; that arbitrary chequerwork of hundred-year blocks was imposed upon the entire Mediterranean and Atlantic literatures for two thousand years, and it still distorts the views of history of all but the alertest minds. The Shape of Things to Come
Mediterranean countries
Perhaps they herd them across the Mediterranean like cowboys with cattle. Times, Sunday Times
Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
In Mediterranean conditions players of both sides contributed to a thrilling encounter.
For example, when traders in the Mediterranean region circa 3000 BC invented seals called bullae to ensure that their shipments reached their destinations tamper-free, they transformed commerce from local to long distance. The meaning of open
Rafts on the river and caravans on the land carried merchandise far and wide -- men made their way to the "Sea of the Rising Sun," as they called the Persian Gulf, and to the "Sea of the Setting Sun," as they called the Mediterranean. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Altogether, the display of such diverse objects within a single gallery might have offered an opportunity to evaluate the artistic koine that has been noted in luxury arts of the eastern Mediterranean.
There are also a few breeding pairs of common gull and Mediterranean gull. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
The Nile discharges itself into the Mediterranean.
Café Bleu offers a range of sandwiches, panini and patisseries which he describes as Mediterranean cuisine.
MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway??? Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
In areas where the climate is the Mediterranean type, land snails aestivate during the dry and hot summers and are active during the fall, the mild winters and the spring. Archive 2006-01-01
Britisher, whose pride it is, sees the 'lion of England who has laid his paw upon the key of the Mediterranean,' and compares it with the king of beasts, sejant, the tail being Europa Point. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
In the mid-1960s, scientists dredging up ooze from the bottom of the Mediterranean began to notice a thick layer of ash that they linked to Thera's eruption.
The cursive rhythms and hot tonality of hot nudes of the 1920s recall Delacroix, Limited and even conventional in its Mediterranean genre, Smith's best work has great formal authority.
They stand on battlements in places of great importance to us: on Israel's border, and Iraq's, in the Mediterranean between two NATO allies, in Europe on the border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to deter a wider Balkan conflict, and in the Caribbean. Letter To Congress On Funds For Un Peacekeeping
An American naval force is showing the flag in various Mediterranean ports.
According to a report in Nature News, the study used radar to track the movement of more than 100,000 noctuid moths, hawkmoths and butterflies as they migrated to northern Europe in the spring and south to the Mediterranean in autumn every year between 2000 and 2007. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Michail Yakimov, of the Institute of the Coastal Marine Environment, Messina, Italy, and his team that studies lakes of concentrated salt solution, known as anoxic hypersaline basins, on the floor of the Mediterranean, has discovered extremely diverse microbial communities on the surfaces of such lakes. Dailyindia.com News Feed
The tree is indigenous to the Mediterranean region, but will grow much further north.
The immediate aftermath of the war was marked by a nostalgic return by many artists to the springs of Mediterranean culture.
The macho spectacle of bullfighting has long been an integral part of Spanish life, with the image of a colourfully dressed matador baiting a bleeding bull being one the whole world associates with the Mediterranean country.
Many will wish, but relatively few will make the trip to the tiny principality perched on an outcrop of rock facing the Mediterranean. Times, Sunday Times
I dream of travelling to the countries that are washed by the Mediterranean Sea.
Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
People in ancient China, India and the Mediterranean region employed biochemistry for making bread with yeast, fermenting beer and wine, and treating diseases with plant and animal extracts.
Because he loved sailing so much and had long dreamt of a retirement spent exploring the Mediterranean, the family scattered his ashes at sea.
If a luxurious Mediterranean cruise is your dream, do not despair.
The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye.
The racist suspicions of the French toward Mediterraneans underlay the eventual ironic triumph of Italian accordion music as the defining Parisian sound of hal musette.
The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly". In search of Nirvana
It would be absurd to compare that Mediterranean passion for music with our own more circumspect attachment to the arts.
Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus and deer disappeared from Mediterranean Islands around the time of human colonization.
Compact, sleek and low-slung, it has the air of a car cornering at speed around a Mediterranean corniche even when it's parked outside your local Tesco.
Fresh chef Peter Evans and Getaway host Catriona Rowntree create a Mediterranean-themed menu of Italian mussels, polenta-crusted spitchcock with green olives and Gorgonzola dolce late with truffled honey.
With Carthage defeated, the Romans became the most powerful Mediterranean state.
In parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, the roasting is done by the burning sun.
In 2001, Carlos Ibáñez and his colleagues at the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, suggested that the giant noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus), a rare European species occurring principally in the Mediterranean, may feed to a large extent on birds (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 9700-9702). Archive 2007-02-01
Excavations have found imported Mediterranean wine and oil jars and fine red tableware of C5 - C6 date.
The new café has expanded on its old range with more meals made to order and Mediterranean platters.
Midway between these semi-aquatic Polynesians and those Arctic tribes who are forced out upon the deep, to struggle with it rather than associate with it, we find the inhabitants of the Mediterranean islands and peninsulas, who are favored by the mild climate and the tideless, fogless, stormless character of their sea. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Burgundy joined to Provence — a dominion from the German Ocean to the Mediterranean! Anne of Geierstein
Tripoli; and as Tunisian corsairs had never depredated upon American commerce, the Mediterranean sea was now opened to the mercantile marine of the United States. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
But no one since has taken on the formidable task of shaping a historical narrative out of the abundant prehistoric data now available for the Mediterranean. The Times Literary Supplement
Once in the eastern Mediterranean they bought up the local gold bezant coins of the Byzantine empire or Arabic dinars and ultimately these became a source of gold for Europe.

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