Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

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Over the same period that Hellenism was spreading through the Mediterranean world, northern and western Europe were dominated by the La Tène culture, a precursor to the Celts that would populate the same area during the Roman age.

Carlo La Vecchia, a Milan-based epidemiologist said, " Pizza could simply be indicative of a lifestyle and food habits, in other words the Italian version of a Mediterranean diet.

The Hallstatt culture was succeeded by the La Tène culture, which developed out of the Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under the impetus of considerable Mediterranean influence from the Greek, Phoenician, and Etruscan civilizations.

Tunis is the most significant port in Tunisia with other significant ports on the Mediterranean Sea including Bizerte, Gabès, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse and Zarzis.

As was the case in many Mediterranean lands in mediaeval times, monks were the main practitioners of winemaking in La Rioja and great advocates of its virtues.

Genoa and La Spezia can see up to of rain in a year ; other areas instead show the normal Mediterranean rainfall of annually.

* Tour De France A La Voile – established in 1978 with 20 boats, the race parallels the cycling event and takes place along France's three coasts: English Channel, Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean.

La Tomatina () is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol, a town located 30 km from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun.

From La Rochelle, they were able to act as intermediaries in trade between England and the Mediterranean.

La Spezia has a typical Mediterranean climate, with hot summers, but warm winters and very rainy autumns and springs.

Also Aïr Mountains in the Sahara of Niger, Balearic Islands and Sicily in the Mediterranean, and the W Canary Islands ( El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma Gran Canaria and Tenerife ).

While a prisoner of war in a camp near Lübeck in Germany, Braudel drafted his great work La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen a l ' époque de Philippe II ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ), without access to his books or notes but relying on his prodigious memory.

His first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

Two weeks before the La Belle discotheque blast, Gaddafi called for Arab assaults on American interests worldwide after a U. S .- Libyan naval clash in the Mediterranean, in which 35 seamen on a Libyan patrol boat in the western Gulf of Sidra were killed in international waters claimed by Libyan government.

Like other Insular manuscripts, the decoration has features relating to pre-Christian Celtic art, featuring spirals, tri-partite divisions of circles, common in the La Tene style, as well as Germanic and Mediterranean elements.

Villajoyosa () or La Vila Joiosa () is a coastal town and municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea.

Powerful local chiefdoms emerged which controlled the redistribution of luxury goods from the Mediterranean world that is characteristic of the La Tène culture.

* Chemin de Fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée ( PLM ) ( Paris, Lyon and Mediterranean Railway )

* The Mediterranean in the Ancient World ( UK ) and Memories of the Mediterranean ( USA ): ( 2001 ) English translation of Les mémoires de la Méditerranée by Siân Reynolds

Air Méditerranée (" Air Mediterranean ") is an airline headquartered on the property of the Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport in Juillan, France.

SNCM ( Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée ) is a French ferry company operating in the Mediterranean.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

The Taurus Mountains are more rugged and less dissected by rivers than the Pontus Mountains and historically have served as a barrier to human movement inland from the Mediterranean coast except where there are mountain passes such as the historic Cilician Gates ( Gülek Pass ), northwest of Adana.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

Whether he also did in the case of the Mediterranean with the kingdom of Kaptara ( possibly Cyprus ), as claimed in later documents, is more questionable.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez ( which is transected by the Suez Canal ), wide.

The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

Bay leaves are a fixture in the cooking of many European cuisines ( particularly those of the Mediterranean ), as well as in the Americas.

However, around the Mediterranean they include also a dozen woody shrubs 1m-3m tall, e. g. in northern Africa ( Zilla spinosa and Ptilotrichum spinosum ), in the Dalmatian islands ( Dendralyssum and Cramboxylon ), and chiefly in Canarias with some woody cruciferous genera: Dendrosinapis, Descurainia, Parolinia, Stanleya, etc ..

The leaves are alternate ( rarely opposite ), sometimes organized in basal rosettes ; in rare shrubby crucifers of Mediterranean their leaves are mostly in terminal rosettes, and may be coriaceous and evergreen.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.

Berkeley has a cool summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification Csb ), with dry summers and wet winters.

The first to use pound locks was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine ( 1642 ), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi ( 1683 ) connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.