The Gulf Stream and its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, for example, warms the atmosphere of the British Isles and north-western Europe and influences weather and climate as far south as the northern Mediterranean.

Located on the west coast of Anatolia, the Aegean region has a fertile soil and a typically Mediterranean climate ; with mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers.

The south and west coasts enjoy a typical Mediterranean climate, with mild rainy winters, and warm dry summers.

Western and southern Anatolia, which have a Mediterranean climate, contaions Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions.

Bursa has a borderline Mediterranean / humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification: Csa / Cfa ).

The south part of Bosnia has Mediterranean climate and a great deal of agriculture.

The southern and western parts of the country have a Mediterranean climate while inland areas and areas with high elevation experience short, cool summers and long, severe winters.

Substantial summer rainfall prevents its climate from being classified as Mediterranean.

Bethlehem has a Mediterranean climate, with hot and dry summers and cold winters.

** dry summer, wet winter: Most regions of the earth receive most of their rainfall during the summer months ; Mediterranean climate regions receive their rainfall during the winter months.

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

The summers are cooler than a typical Mediterranean climate thanks to upwelling ocean currents along the California coast.

The five primary classifications can be further divided into secondary classifications such as rain forest, monsoon, tropical savanna, humid subtropical, humid continental, oceanic climate, Mediterranean climate, steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert.

The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.

Casablanca has a very mild Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification Csa ).

It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate ( mild, wet winters and hot dry summers ) and wildfire, featuring summer drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought deciduous, scrub community of Coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome.

Sunshine is plentiful, as is typical of the Eastern Mediterranean, with almost no cloud cover in the summer months.

The mild, Mediterranean climate and the plentiful winter rainfall endow the island with dense vegetation.

Given its location on the Mediterranean, seafood is plentiful in the local cuisine.

Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.

The site lay astride the land route from Europe to Asia and the seaway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and had in the Golden Horn an excellent and spacious harbour.

Approximately two million years ago, the land between the Rift Valley and the Mediterranean Sea rose to such an extent that the ocean could no longer flood the area.

The Gaza Strip (, ) is a strip of land on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest ( 11 km ) and Israel on the east and north ().

The land served as " a gateway to India, impinging on the ancient Silk Road, which carried trade from the Mediterranean to China ".

One of the most spectacular features of Justinian's reign was the recovery of large stretches of land around the Western Mediterranean basin which had slipped out of Imperial control in the 5th century.

Gama's voyage was successful in reaching India and this permitted the Portuguese to trade with the Far East directly by sea, thus challenging older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the Spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean.

* Mediterranean Basin, the European, Asian, and African land areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea

The flooding of the area now known as the Black Sea ( when a land bridge, where the Bosporus is now, collapsed under the pressure of rising water in the Mediterranean Sea ) submerged a great deal of human activity that had been gathered round what had been an enormous, fresh-water lake.

The Spanish mainland is bordered to the south and east almost entirely by the Mediterranean Sea ( except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ); to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.

It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two continents.

Charles had spent his life striving to assemble a Mediterranean empire out of whatever land he could get through law or force of arms.

Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498, was then successful in reaching India and this permitted the Portuguese to trade with the Far East directly by sea, thus challenging older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the Spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean.

* 1000 – The Arab Empire introduced agricultural innovations such as new forms of land tenure, improvements in irrigation, a variety of sophisticated irrigation methods, the introduction of fertilizers and widespread artificial irrigation systems, the development of gravity-flow irrigation systems from rivers and springs, the use of noria and chain pumps for irrigation purposes, the establishment of the sugar cane industry in the Mediterranean, and experimentation in sugar cultivation

Ninety-one percent of the Algerian population lives along the Mediterranean coast on 12 % of the country's total land mass.

Orthrus and his master, Eurytion, were charged with guarding Geryon's herd of red cattle in the " sunset " land of Erytheia (" red one "), one of the islands of the Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean.

Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily and the campaign on the Italian mainland until the surrender of German forces in Italy in May 1945.

He pushed ahead with extending the airfield into land reclaimed from the sea, against the advice of the British government, but was later thanked by the War Cabinet for his foresight when the airfield proved vital to the British Mediterranean campaign.

In 1985, the stadium was replaced with the current iteration, built on a nearby site consisting of land reclaimed from the Mediterranean, which has become a recurring feature of the stadium's seaside surroundings.

Northern Europeans ( Scandinavians ), when confronted with the classical Greco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean, identified themselves with the Hyperboreans, neglecting the traditional aspect of a perpetually sunny land beyond the north.

The largest colony in the Mediterranean is found in Filfla island Malta were there is up to 5, 000 pairs It is strictly pelagic outside the breeding season, and this, together with its remote breeding sites, makes Storm Petrel a difficult bird to see from land.

Some imported stonework and statuary on the island serves as a habitat for a Mediterranean land snail, Papillifera bidens.

For this reason extensive acreages of Mediterranean oak woodlands and grasslands are stewarded by ranches whose economy depends on summer range on government land under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Forest Service.