Our beloved Antalya is located on the Mediterranean coast, we want to bring you some interesting facts about this beautiful sea, which the whole INEST HOMES team is sincerely in love with, let's go.
The name Mediterranean Sea was invented by the ancient writer Gaius Julius Solin, based on the ideas of his time, since the ancient European and North African civilizations developed in the basin of this particular sea, which served as a natural route of communication between them. He called it the sea in the middle of the earth.
The Mediterranean Sea is bordered by Africa, Europe and Asia and has a connection with the Atlantic only through the Strait of Gibraltar. The Suez Canal connects it with the Red Sea, and the Bosphorus Strait with the Black Sea.
The Mediterranean Sea is washed by the coast of 21 states: Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey;
In Turkey, the local population calls the Mediterranean Sea "Ak Deniz" or White. Due to the milky white haze on the horizon, which is visible in any weather. However, there is one version of this name. In the Ottoman Empire, and then in Turkey, the name “Western Sea” or “White Sea” was assigned to them for this sea, because it is located to the west of Turkey, and in Turkish culture, white is associated with the West.
The area of the Mediterranean Sea is 2,500,000 km2. This is more than countries like England and Sweden.
The length of the coastline reaches 45 thousand kilometers. This exceeds the length of the coast of Africa.
The Black Sea was formed precisely thanks to the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of years ago, in the course of tectonic processes, a piece of land between them sank so that the waters of the Mediterranean rushed into the valley and flooded it.
We got this information from the Internet.
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