2:00 - What is your source for "Tyrrhenian is the term the Greeks used for any non-Greeks"? I don't believe that is true. That is often said of many tribal names such as "Celts" and "Scythians", that they simply meant "non-Greek", however most academics today agree all of those names (Celts, Scythians, Tyrrhenians, etc) were actually tribal names and not generic names and especially they did not mean "non-Greek" much less "Barbarian". Why do "historians" keep repeating these old memes?
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The Romans sometimes referred to it as Mare Nostum, our sea. Names of bodies of water are sometimes contentious. I've had Arab students cross off Persian in Persian Gulf and write in Arab, while the American instruction to its military is to always say "The Gulf." On the other side of the world, Korean students have crossed out the part of my map showing Sea of Japan, and replaced it with East Sea. The French, of course like neither English nor the English Channel and call it "La Manche.' which suggests a possible sequel, n'est-ce pas?
@tomhalla426 there is no arabian ocean, it's called indian ocean. Even arabs don't have anything called arabian ocean or arabian sea. The persian golf is called arabian golf in arabic. In european languages it's usually called persian golf. Most people don't really care and just use the name they're used to in whatever language they use. I say arabian in arabic and persian in french and english. "The golf" is usually the term used to refer to the nations around it and the people who live there, in all the languages that I speak.
To say that the Mediterranean sea doesn't exist just because it consists of smaler parts is like continents, bodies, buildings and lots more doesn't exist ether.
I'd imagine if civilization developed earlier in North America the gulf of Mexico would have been the center of a lot of major civilizations, like the Mediterranean was.
Doesn’t have a unique culture?! What about the redneck Riviera? What about the creole and cajun of Louisiana? What about just the good ol southern south? There may be subcultures underneath that larger culture, but when you cross into it, and you are in the deepest part of the south, you know you are in a place unlike any other in the United States, and it goes all the way down until about the middle of Florida when you have the sixth borough of New York city straight ahead of you, that being Miami Dade and Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Southern culture is proud as it is unique. They have their own literature, great writers, excellent cuisine, music, dialects and myths.
Why aren’t the great lakes which is a very large enclosed contiguous body of water made up of several individual lakes, not be considered a sea? I mean the sea of Galilee is much more of a lake than it is the sea isn’t it look how large the great lakes area is. I think it’s one of the largest bodies of water that is completely surrounded by land, although it does have an entryway from the Saint Lawrence river. But why isn’t considered a seat? Because when the lake it’s stirred up in bad weather, many people have been swallowed up and it is not some calm little lake. Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most mournful odes to a ship that went down in the great Lake during a early winter storm
The designation "sea" is pretty arbitrary, and a lot of seas are so called because somebody just wanted to name a sea. As far as I can tell, an accurate definition of the word would be "an area of water people agree to call a sea". There doesn't seem to a be requirements for being natural, or having a minimum size, or any surrounding land even. I've never heard of "mediterranian" used as a generic term, but my geography degree is almost thirty years old and a bit stale by now...
I think the names of the seas originated as just general markers. In ancient times, navigators used all means possible to make orientation on sea easier, and dividing the ocean in smaller areas made it easier to describe certain trade routes, marking fishing grounds or measuring distances from one coastline to another. Ergo, it's also from a countries sea-territory and has no distinct borders. Basically, "sea" is just the mariner's term for regions.
The Mediterranean Sea refers to the entire Sea between Europ and Africa, having sub-regions doesn't mean the thing have a name as a hole. I'm from Lebanon and never heard of the Levantine Sea, we call it the Mediterranean Sea. It's possible that ships use the term to specify smaller regions, but it's not a name used by everyday people. We do use the word Levant occasionally to refer to the countries on the east of the Mediterranean, but the sea and shore is simpky refered to as the east of the Mediterranean (as a descriptive, not as a name). As a side note the arabic word for east means where the sun rises (so basically the levant), so levant and east in arabic are the same. I've never heard of the word Mediterranean used to describe any other body of water. The only use I can imagine would be figurative to mean similar to the Mediterranean Sea.
Hello from Italy 🇮🇹, Nah, we don’t consider them as seas of their own as the Mediterranean is, we just call them seas as in salt water, but they’re just portions of the actual sea, the Mediterranean. Also I personally don’t feel like calling something that has no closure to the ocean, like the Carribean Sea or the Mexico basin , Mediterranean, just because a bunch of German scientists do so.
C'è un punto in Sicilia, credo nei dintorni di Pachino, in cui è scritto su dei cartelli "qui finisce il mar Jonio e inizia il mar Mediterraneo". Per cui la definizione di mediterraneo anche per noi italiani è abastanza aleatoria.
You forgot the only landlocked ocean, the Caspian Sea. It retains an ocean basin and therefore qualifies as a sea. But it's also considered the world's largest lake. The irony is that the nations on its southern shore, where its ocean basin is, want the Caspian to be legally designated a lake, while the nations on its northern shore, which is entirely continental, want the Caspian to be legally designated a sea.
You are forgetting the Dead Sea which is in a rift spreading zone and hence an "ocean bottom". Most People would also call the Great Salt Lake and Bear Lake in Utah lansocked sea.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 Neither the Dead Sea nor Lake Baikal actually have ocean basins. For that to be the case, both would have to have clear evidence of seafloor spreading in the form of thin basalt crust. The Caspian still has that. The Red Sea is now a sea because it also has seafloor spreading and associated basalts. But it too started as a rift lake.
@@AtarahDerek I see that you read a geology book once but never studied geogrphy at all. The Dead Sea and Jordan Vally exists because they are part of the Great Rift Valley runs frrom the base of Mt. Hermon through the Gulf of Aquaba and the Red sea into Africa. It IS a spreading center and thus Ocean bottom. I said the Great salt Lake was different but it still is a sea.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 It's a divergent *continental* boundary, not an oceanic one. An ocean basin is characterized by thin basalt crust. The Dead Sea lacks this. Its lake bottom consists of thick granite and highly viscous lavas. As do all the rift lakes in Africa. The Red Sea has a very apparent ocean basin made of thin basalt, and it would retain this basin for a time even if it were suddenly cut off from the Indian Ocean. For a body of water to be a sea, it must be saltwater and either a) be directly attached to an ocean, or b) retain an ocean basin, as defined above. The Caspian Sea meets the necessary criteria to be considered a sea. The Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake do not. For a body of water to be considered a lake, it must simply be landlocked (and also exceed a certain size or volume so as to not be classified as a pond). Hence why the Caspian is both a lake and a sea. And given our habit of referring to seas that lack ocean basins as gulfs or bays, the Caspian Sea is more of a sea than Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico are.
@@AtarahDerek I assume from your gross ignorance that you have never had a geology course beyond 8th grade Earth science. Perhaps you just finished the 8th grade. SMH. That rift valley is the exact same fault/spreading system that runs through the Red Sea AND the African rift. They commonly start on land and spread. You know, like the ones that broke Pangea up. SMH. Such as the mid-Atlantic rift that split Africa and South America. It so cute that you are using big words you don't understand and trying to look smart. There, there, Der, der. You'll grow up some day.
People from the Mediterranean area do actually see it as one big sea. Those smaller seas are just subdivision, like you have regions land within the same country or neighborhoods inside one city.
I've been to the gulf of Mexico/Caribbean sea, but not the actual Mediterranean sea. I really love the turquoise waters of the Caribbean vs the blue of the ocean/gulf. I've realized that is because the Caribbean is shallower than the ocean/gulf. I even saw several shades of the blue/turquoise while on the coast of Mexico.
I had never heard of the Sea of Sicily, except obliquely. There's an underwater volcanic field off the south coast of Sicily called Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia. One of the vents in this field, called Ferdinandea in Italian, Graham Shoal in English, and Île Julia in French, rises close to the surface and has erupted several times in historic times to build an island, which has just as often been washed away, most recently 1831-1832, at which time it was visited and claimed by Italy, Britain, and France.
It's all the Med to me. Love the whole place! Earth exists, yeah? ...even though we've got (a) specific separate name/s for every little piece and parcel of it. ;) Good video.
Nope, it’s Israel. Palestine does border it through the Gaza Strip, but it is very small and it isn’t recognized by enough countries to qualify as an independent state. Also, it’s Turkey in English.
We do know what kinds of slings the Balearic slingers used though. The people on the islands still have a tradition of learning to use those styles of slings, and there's loads of historical military records about the skills of those slingers.
@@lesterstone8595 I agree 5 is the more sensible option (I actually think 4 is better but I digress) many people split Atlantic into north and south so that adds an extra for 6. The 7th is weird, in school I was told the pacific was also split in half, but I can’t find evidence of this ever being the case online 🙃 there’s no natural divide in the pacific so they probably only said it because of how big it was. I don’t like this method however. I think a better spot for number 7 would be some kind of merged Mediterranean conglomerate that includes all the mid-afroeurasian Caspian Sea/Black Sea/Aral Sea/Persian gulf/Red Sea etc but even that is flawed There aren’t 7 oceans, like you said. But at least it’s closer to 7 than however many seas there are…
From a certain standpoint you could argue the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov are part of the Mediterranean as well, Since they're only connection to the ocean as a whole is through the Turkish Straits, Which of course lead into the Aegean.
Plato says of the Med ‘we sit around it like frogs around a pond’. He of course attributed it to Socrates, but I suspect it was Plato. I think it’s in Phaedo, but someone may correct that.
I just realised that the UK is technically a Mediterranean country. So the next time a Brit wants to go to the Med for holiday, just head to Birmingham! lol
He's just a british guy who wants his own Mediterranean Sea because his country isn't there. But technically the UK is a Mediterranean country b3cause they control a small section of Cyprus.
Homer uses a closely related word barbaraphonoi, meaning those whose speech sounds like bar-bar (phonos sound as in telephone). He uses it in the Catalogue of Ships in book 2 of the Iliad. The people are the Lydians from Western Asia Minor, who are allies of the Greeks. It’s not pejorative in Homer. But it’s a short hop to barbaroi, those who are barbarian. By classical times it’s used to mean anyone not Greek. In Aeschylus The Persians, the Persian queen calms herself a barbarian. In Medea by Euripides, Jason famously calls Medea , his own wife, a barbarian.
@@DavyCDiamondback it does, I'm lebanese and speak french and we understand the word to mean where the sun rises. The word gets translated to arabic as "mashriq" which means exactly the same. The name have given to the area because it's the eastern part of the Mediterranean world. The Maghreb is the opposite and means where the sun sets, but the arabic word is used as is in europe (probably because it only refers to the african side).
@@AtariTheAnimatorpalestinian is much more than the Gaza strip. It's more about chosing between calling the country Palestine or Israel. It's a disputed country with both parties actually wanting 100% of it. Don't be fooled by the fake 2 country arrangement.
Say it with me "PALESTINE ". C'mon you are a smart dude who knows his geography. Surely you must have realised the reaction that ommission would receive. Unsub
I feel he did everything he can to offend everyone from around the Mediterranean Sea in this video. By saying the whole thing doesn't really exist, to using the name for other seas. Then omitting Palestine.
@@AtariTheAnimator are you high? Palestine is a country. It existed long before Israel and yes it has ports on the med even though it's blockade by apartheid Israel.
@@AtariTheAnimator what you're saying is moot point. It is today a country. If he uploaded this video in the 1920s it would be different. But we are in the 2020's.
What seas of the Mediterranean have you visited?
2:00 - What is your source for "Tyrrhenian is the term the Greeks used for any non-Greeks"?
I don't believe that is true.
That is often said of many tribal names such as "Celts" and "Scythians", that they simply meant "non-Greek", however most academics today agree all of those names (Celts, Scythians, Tyrrhenians, etc) were actually tribal names and not generic names and especially they did not mean "non-Greek" much less "Barbarian".
Why do "historians" keep repeating these old memes?
*You forgot the Sea of Marmara!*
0:23 when 2 "R" make an "L" sound ??? i gave you a 2 Stal fol effolt
RUclips Algoritm really hates you, your video's are so good, you have so many subs, but youtube is like nah we aren't gonna recommend your stuff.
But you still keep making video's, thanks for that man!
The OG one
Mediterranean Sea is the "sea in the middle of land". The word is quite accurate for the name.
Yeah, no shiz.
I came into this thinking the same thing but I’m curious what he has to say.
The Romans sometimes referred to it as Mare Nostum, our sea. Names of bodies of water are sometimes contentious. I've had Arab students cross off Persian in Persian Gulf and write in Arab, while the American instruction to its military is to always say "The Gulf." On the other side of the world, Korean students have crossed out the part of my map showing Sea of Japan, and replaced it with East Sea. The French, of course like neither English nor the English Channel and call it "La Manche.' which suggests a possible sequel, n'est-ce pas?
Standard usage has the Persian Gulf as a branch of the Arabian Ocean, so the Arabs should get over it.
@@tomhalla426 That's logical, but when have nationalists ever cared about logic?
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Arabian Ocean? WHat is that?
@@zaco-km3suI think they mean the Arabian sea
@tomhalla426 there is no arabian ocean, it's called indian ocean. Even arabs don't have anything called arabian ocean or arabian sea. The persian golf is called arabian golf in arabic. In european languages it's usually called persian golf. Most people don't really care and just use the name they're used to in whatever language they use. I say arabian in arabic and persian in french and english. "The golf" is usually the term used to refer to the nations around it and the people who live there, in all the languages that I speak.
To say that the Mediterranean sea doesn't exist just because it consists of smaler parts is like continents, bodies, buildings and lots more doesn't exist ether.
All Oceans have subdivisions, and that still makes them an ocean...
True
But, you clicked on the video
The Gulf Coast of the US really does have its own distinct culture. Sometimes people around here call it the Third Coast.
I'd imagine if civilization developed earlier in North America the gulf of Mexico would have been the center of a lot of major civilizations, like the Mediterranean was.
Doesn’t have a unique culture?! What about the redneck Riviera? What about the creole and cajun of Louisiana? What about just the good ol southern south? There may be subcultures underneath that larger culture, but when you cross into it, and you are in the deepest part of the south, you know you are in a place unlike any other in the United States, and it goes all the way down until about the middle of Florida when you have the sixth borough of New York city straight ahead of you, that being Miami Dade and Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Southern culture is proud as it is unique. They have their own literature, great writers, excellent cuisine, music, dialects and myths.
Why aren’t the great lakes which is a very large enclosed contiguous body of water made up of several individual lakes, not be considered a sea? I mean the sea of Galilee is much more of a lake than it is the sea isn’t it look how large the great lakes area is. I think it’s one of the largest bodies of water that is completely surrounded by land, although it does have an entryway from the Saint Lawrence river. But why isn’t considered a seat? Because when the lake it’s stirred up in bad weather, many people have been swallowed up and it is not some calm little lake. Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most mournful odes to a ship that went down in the great Lake during a early winter storm
@@pbohearn The great lakes are made of fresh water and above sea level.
The third American coast is in Alaska, as Alaska touches the Arctic Ocean.
The designation "sea" is pretty arbitrary, and a lot of seas are so called because somebody just wanted to name a sea. As far as I can tell, an accurate definition of the word would be "an area of water people agree to call a sea". There doesn't seem to a be requirements for being natural, or having a minimum size, or any surrounding land even.
I've never heard of "mediterranian" used as a generic term, but my geography degree is almost thirty years old and a bit stale by now...
The Sargasso Sea comes to mind as a "sea" that isn't a sea, as it's just part of the North Atlantic.
I think the names of the seas originated as just general markers. In ancient times, navigators used all means possible to make orientation on sea easier, and dividing the ocean in smaller areas made it easier to describe certain trade routes, marking fishing grounds or measuring distances from one coastline to another. Ergo, it's also from a countries sea-territory and has no distinct borders. Basically, "sea" is just the mariner's term for regions.
The Mediterranean Sea refers to the entire Sea between Europ and Africa, having sub-regions doesn't mean the thing have a name as a hole. I'm from Lebanon and never heard of the Levantine Sea, we call it the Mediterranean Sea. It's possible that ships use the term to specify smaller regions, but it's not a name used by everyday people. We do use the word Levant occasionally to refer to the countries on the east of the Mediterranean, but the sea and shore is simpky refered to as the east of the Mediterranean (as a descriptive, not as a name). As a side note the arabic word for east means where the sun rises (so basically the levant), so levant and east in arabic are the same.
I've never heard of the word Mediterranean used to describe any other body of water. The only use I can imagine would be figurative to mean similar to the Mediterranean Sea.
Hello from Italy 🇮🇹,
Nah, we don’t consider them as seas of their own as the Mediterranean is, we just call them seas as in salt water, but they’re just portions of the actual sea, the Mediterranean.
Also I personally don’t feel like calling something that has no closure to the ocean, like the Carribean Sea or the Mexico basin , Mediterranean, just because a bunch of German scientists do so.
cześć. nie rozumiem co napisałeś bo nie znam włoskiego języka, ale ja też nie za bardzo ufam niemieckim naukowcom 🙃
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@@baaaj3200on rze napisal to angelskiem, nie?
C'è un punto in Sicilia, credo nei dintorni di Pachino, in cui è scritto su dei cartelli "qui finisce il mar Jonio e inizia il mar Mediterraneo". Per cui la definizione di mediterraneo anche per noi italiani è abastanza aleatoria.
@@LowIQsocietymember oj tam, czepiasz się szczegółów 😅
@@baaaj3200 wyszło śmiesznie 👏👏👏
You forgot the only landlocked ocean, the Caspian Sea. It retains an ocean basin and therefore qualifies as a sea. But it's also considered the world's largest lake. The irony is that the nations on its southern shore, where its ocean basin is, want the Caspian to be legally designated a lake, while the nations on its northern shore, which is entirely continental, want the Caspian to be legally designated a sea.
You are forgetting the Dead Sea which is in a rift spreading zone and hence an "ocean bottom". Most People would also call the Great Salt Lake and Bear Lake in Utah lansocked sea.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 Neither the Dead Sea nor Lake Baikal actually have ocean basins. For that to be the case, both would have to have clear evidence of seafloor spreading in the form of thin basalt crust. The Caspian still has that. The Red Sea is now a sea because it also has seafloor spreading and associated basalts. But it too started as a rift lake.
@@AtarahDerek I see that you read a geology book once but never studied geogrphy at all. The Dead Sea and Jordan Vally exists because they are part of the Great Rift Valley runs frrom the base of Mt. Hermon through the Gulf of Aquaba and the Red sea into Africa. It IS a spreading center and thus Ocean bottom. I said the Great salt Lake was different but it still is a sea.
@@johnbreitmeier3268 It's a divergent *continental* boundary, not an oceanic one. An ocean basin is characterized by thin basalt crust. The Dead Sea lacks this. Its lake bottom consists of thick granite and highly viscous lavas. As do all the rift lakes in Africa. The Red Sea has a very apparent ocean basin made of thin basalt, and it would retain this basin for a time even if it were suddenly cut off from the Indian Ocean.
For a body of water to be a sea, it must be saltwater and either a) be directly attached to an ocean, or b) retain an ocean basin, as defined above. The Caspian Sea meets the necessary criteria to be considered a sea. The Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake do not. For a body of water to be considered a lake, it must simply be landlocked (and also exceed a certain size or volume so as to not be classified as a pond). Hence why the Caspian is both a lake and a sea. And given our habit of referring to seas that lack ocean basins as gulfs or bays, the Caspian Sea is more of a sea than Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico are.
@@AtarahDerek I assume from your gross ignorance that you have never had a geology course beyond 8th grade Earth science. Perhaps you just finished the 8th grade. SMH.
That rift valley is the exact same fault/spreading system that runs through the Red Sea AND the African rift. They commonly start on land and spread. You know, like the ones that broke Pangea up. SMH. Such as the mid-Atlantic rift that split Africa and South America.
It so cute that you are using big words you don't understand and trying to look smart. There, there, Der, der. You'll grow up some day.
so i have been swimming in a lie, seas in seas😭
"C, big blue wabbly thing mermaids live in, C."
-Baldric from the Blackadder comedy show
0:58 Cratia, Monteneglow, & Alabania”
The fact that it's hard to call this place Mediterranean doesn't mean that we won't try anyway
In German the Mediteranean Sea is just calld "Mittelmeer" which can be translated into "Center Sea".
Middle Sea aswell
@@fnansjy456
Yeah, that could even be a better translation.
In Czech we call it Středozemní moře, which literally means Middle Earth Sea, so basically Mediterranean. Lol
in Arabic we call it the White middle sea
Also in Hebrew (ים תיכון - Cental/Middle Sea)
A sea within a sea within a sea! 🌊 That’s a lot to process.🤯
We should change the name from Mediterranean Sea to Conglomerate Sea.
Polymarian? Multimarian? Conmarian?
So that the Mediterranean lifestyle and architecture can become conglomerate? No thanks 😂
Na verdade tudo faz parte do Oceano Atlântico
Europe is a peninsula made out of peninsulas, so I suppose the Mediterranean must inevitably be a sea made out of seas.
People from the Mediterranean area do actually see it as one big sea. Those smaller seas are just subdivision, like you have regions land within the same country or neighborhoods inside one city.
When I said I wanted a Mediterranean cruise I didn't mean the Tethys Sea. There are *things* in the water.....
I've been to the gulf of Mexico/Caribbean sea, but not the actual Mediterranean sea. I really love the turquoise waters of the Caribbean vs the blue of the ocean/gulf. I've realized that is because the Caribbean is shallower than the ocean/gulf. I even saw several shades of the blue/turquoise while on the coast of Mexico.
Depending on the season and lighting, we get blue-green, and green-brown here in coastal Texas.
The Mediterranean Sea is absolutely not turquoise.
In the footnote about thunder at 4:40 , it is lightning, not lightening.
I’m from the Balearic Islands and we don’t say that we are islands in the balearic sea but islands in the Mediterranean sea
This video is as clickbait as clickbait can be.
I had never heard of the Sea of Sicily, except obliquely. There's an underwater volcanic field off the south coast of Sicily called Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia. One of the vents in this field, called Ferdinandea in Italian, Graham Shoal in English, and Île Julia in French, rises close to the surface and has erupted several times in historic times to build an island, which has just as often been washed away, most recently 1831-1832, at which time it was visited and claimed by Italy, Britain, and France.
The Mediterranean Sea is also known as the Wendel Sea, which comes from a partial calque of Old English Wendelsæ (literally the Vandal Sea)
Very interesting. Thank you. ❤
It's all the Med to me. Love the whole place! Earth exists, yeah? ...even though we've got (a) specific separate name/s for every little piece and parcel of it. ;) Good video.
5:02 *Egypt, *Palestine*, Lebanon, Syria, and Türkiye...
Nope, it’s Israel. Palestine does border it through the Gaza Strip, but it is very small and it isn’t recognized by enough countries to qualify as an independent state. Also, it’s Turkey in English.
We do know what kinds of slings the Balearic slingers used though. The people on the islands still have a tradition of learning to use those styles of slings, and there's loads of historical military records about the skills of those slingers.
I bet the Latin levare is why we call dough that doesn't rise unleavened.
When they mention the "Seven Seas," why aren't these seas counted among them, or why is the number limited to only seven?
They mean seven oceans. (Even without counting these smaller seas, there’s wayyyyyy more than seven)
@@esmerat 1) Atlantic Ocean, 2) Pacific Ocean, 3) Indian Ocean, 4) Artic Ocean, 5) Antarctic Ocean. What are the other 2 oceans?
@@lesterstone8595 I agree 5 is the more sensible option (I actually think 4 is better but I digress) many people split Atlantic into north and south so that adds an extra for 6. The 7th is weird, in school I was told the pacific was also split in half, but I can’t find evidence of this ever being the case online 🙃 there’s no natural divide in the pacific so they probably only said it because of how big it was. I don’t like this method however. I think a better spot for number 7 would be some kind of merged Mediterranean conglomerate that includes all the mid-afroeurasian Caspian Sea/Black Sea/Aral Sea/Persian gulf/Red Sea etc but even that is flawed
There aren’t 7 oceans, like you said. But at least it’s closer to 7 than however many seas there are…
@@esmerat okay
Seven used to be considered the perfect number. Seven seas pretty much ment all the seas, like reaching the limits or God/the gods.
Actually Mediterranean is the name the French gave it. The Roman’s called it Mare Nostrum, to mean “our sea.”
Feel like this should’ve been named “subdivisions of the Mediterranean”, but that wouldn’t have made so much views…
I thought "Ballearic" was named after the whales.
Thanks!
In Bulgaria we also call the Aegean Sea the White sea!
But the White sea is that sea next to the Kola peninsula in Russia.
Adriatic Sea - “The Bull from the Sea” by Mary Renault,
What about the Caspian sea?
Atriatik = to stay or to go. Li-gur = Li- stone. Tirren = to SEW nets for fishing. Jon = our. Egje = to find.
I hate that those "seas" have their own names. IMHO it's just the Mediterranean Sea, period.
5:58 okay what in the ant sized f***😂😂
People who play Diplomacy know about these parts of the Mediterranean.
Oh, you know what they say - it's all water in the ocean, really. 😊
Why Adriatic sea and not Adriatic Gulf?
Sea of Marmara is off the coast of Western Turkey.
Famous for followers of late roman and ottoman history.
Umm. why does your map of the world not include Aotearoa?
From a certain standpoint you could argue the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov are part of the Mediterranean as well, Since they're only connection to the ocean as a whole is through the Turkish Straits, Which of course lead into the Aegean.
Not to mention the Sea of Marmara, the lack of mention here was surprising as it is like the Adriatic or Ionian Seas in relation to the Mediterranean.
Anyone else slightly annoyed by Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica not appearing on the map? 9:12
Plato says of the Med ‘we sit around it like frogs around a pond’. He of course attributed it to Socrates, but I suspect it was Plato. I think it’s in Phaedo, but someone may correct that.
The balearic slingers used slings. There's evidence for this in Roman historical record
Seas aren’t really a thing. We invented a name for areas of water. If most people think it’s a sea, it’s a sea
So why do we call it the Sea of Galilee but refer to it as Lake Superiour ?
Because civilization was smaller when Galilee was named; a lot of "seas" would be called lakes or gulfs if they'd been named later in history.
Correction 5:04
*Palestine
@@AtariTheAnimatorit illegally occupies it. Doest change that it is indeed still in the med and exists.
superthanks!
so what you’re saying is that middle earth is a real place i can go?
So the Gold coast really is the true Mediterranean sea. Thankfully I’ve been to the Bahamas, probably the calmest water I’ve ever seen.
4:05 well, many Portuguese only come to realize it later in life. Nearly everyone thinks of the Algarve as being Mediterranean 😂
I just realised that the UK is technically a Mediterranean country. So the next time a Brit wants to go to the Med for holiday, just head to Birmingham! lol
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He's just a british guy who wants his own Mediterranean Sea because his country isn't there. But technically the UK is a Mediterranean country b3cause they control a small section of Cyprus.
A sea is just a peninsula for bodies of water
@4:38 While lightning does produce momentary lightening, it's usually not spelled that way.😏 #FeedTheAlgorithm
bolivia is said to be mediterrenean because it's surrounded only by land, since it lost its access to the ocean in the pacific war
Sea of Marmara anyone???
As far as I know barbarian originates also from greek
Homer uses a closely related word barbaraphonoi, meaning those whose speech sounds like bar-bar (phonos sound as in telephone). He uses it in the Catalogue of Ships in book 2 of the Iliad. The people are the Lydians from Western Asia Minor, who are allies of the Greeks. It’s not pejorative in Homer. But it’s a short hop to barbaroi, those who are barbarian. By classical times it’s used to mean anyone not Greek. In Aeschylus The Persians, the Persian queen calms herself a barbarian. In Medea by Euripides, Jason famously calls Medea , his own wife, a barbarian.
All these other seas are just convenient localizations from ancient times. Many should more accurately be called bays.
MARE NOSTRUM
You Forgot to Mention Palestine when naming countries that border the Levantine Sea.
Interesting, I automatically assumed Levant came from the tribe of Levi.
No it just means rising. In french "rising sun" translates to "soleil levant". The word makes sense in other languages too.
@@tonymouannes It means rising in French, but that does not mean the phonogram originated from the romance languages
@@DavyCDiamondback it does, I'm lebanese and speak french and we understand the word to mean where the sun rises. The word gets translated to arabic as "mashriq" which means exactly the same. The name have given to the area because it's the eastern part of the Mediterranean world. The Maghreb is the opposite and means where the sun sets, but the arabic word is used as is in europe (probably because it only refers to the african side).
It is actually Mare Nostrum. Deal with it.
- a salty Mediterranean lady
Mediterannean isnt middle of the world, its in between land
Like mesopotamia the land in between rivers
Of course it exists. It is in the middle of the the underside of the hollow, flat Earth.
You forgot about the Great Sea.
Middle Earth you say?
Levantine sea also contains Palestine
Although the Gaza Strip is very small and it’s understandable that he forgot it.
@@AtariTheAnimatorpalestinian is much more than the Gaza strip. It's more about chosing between calling the country Palestine or Israel. It's a disputed country with both parties actually wanting 100% of it. Don't be fooled by the fake 2 country arrangement.
Mare Nostrum!
It was slings, not slingshots. Pretty much thier thing.
@NameEplain think it all fresh water. Where the so called Mediterranean sea is at?
The adriatic sea. And medditeranian sea DOES EXIST!!!!!!!
Why I outta…..
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Take that Romans
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Say it with me "PALESTINE ". C'mon you are a smart dude who knows his geography. Surely you must have realised the reaction that ommission would receive. Unsub
Palestine is a region. He specifically said countries. Israel is a country that borders the Levantine Sea.
I feel he did everything he can to offend everyone from around the Mediterranean Sea in this video. By saying the whole thing doesn't really exist, to using the name for other seas. Then omitting Palestine.
@@AtariTheAnimator are you high? Palestine is a country. It existed long before Israel and yes it has ports on the med even though it's blockade by apartheid Israel.
@@AtariTheAnimator what you're saying is moot point. It is today a country. If he uploaded this video in the 1920s it would be different. But we are in the 2020's.
You pronounce everything wrong.
I can't take your inability to pronounce the letter L.