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Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II: the 1940–1945 Allied–Axis campaigns in North Africa, the Balkans, Greece, Crete, East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Persia, and Italy, the war's longest theatre.
Mediterranean Biogeographic Region
The Mediterranean Biogeographic Region is the EU's Habitats Directive region covering Greece, Cyprus, Malta, parts of Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and Gibraltar, a biodiversity hotspot with 13,000 endemic plants.
Mediterranean Broadcasting Company
The Mediterranean Broadcasting Company is a Saudi media and entertainment conglomerate serving the Middle East and North Africa, founded in London in 1991 and majority owned by the Public Investment Fund.
Mediterranean climate
The Mediterranean climate, or dry summer climate, is a temperate climate with wet winters and dry summers, occurring in five regions including the Mediterranean Basin, California, and central Chile.
Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
The Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests ecoregion is relict fir and pine woodland on the moist mid- to high-altitude slopes of North Africa's principal mountain ranges.
Mediterranean cuisine
Mediterranean cuisine, the cooking of countries around the Mediterranean Sea (Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt), shares olive oil, wheat, grapes, fresh seasonal ingredients, and communal meals; UNESCO-listed since 2010.
Mediterranean Department
The Mediterranean Department is a section of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Adjara, Georgia, created in the 1930s to display plants native to the Mediterranean region.
Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean diet: plant-forward eating pattern from olive-growing southern Europe, built on olive oil, fish, legumes, and whole grains; UNESCO heritage since 2010, studied in the PREDIMED trial.
Mediterranean diet score
The Mediterranean diet score is a dietary index rating adherence to the traditional Mediterranean diet, devised by Antonia Trichopoulou in 1995 and revised to 0–9 points in 2003.
Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe (WWF PA1213, ID 797) is a North African ecoregion of arid Atlas plateaus, alfa grasslands, and Aleppo pine, spanning Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, threatened by desertification.
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub: a biome of sclerophyll forest, maquis, and scrub in mediterranean-type climates (mild wet winters, hot dry summers), notably the 81-million-hectare Mediterranean Basin, fire-adapted, biodiverse, and threatened by drought and wildfires.
Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games (Juegos del Mediterráneo; Giochi del Mediterraneo): quadrennial multi-sport event for Mediterranean-basin NOCs, first held Alexandria 1951, governed by the ICMG in Athens, 26 members, 20th edition Taranto 2026.
Mediterranean Garden (Montenegro)
The Mediterranean Garden (Mediteranski vrt) is a volunteer-built aromatic-plant garden on Gorica Hill, Podgorica, Montenegro, opened in 2018 by the Association of Gorica and Nature Admirers, with about 1,000 mainly Mediterranean aromatic plants on a 3,000 m² site.
Mediterranean garden of Brijuni
Mediterranean Garden of Brijuni (Mediteranski vrt), a 17,000 m2 display garden on Veliki Brijun in Brijuni National Park, Croatia. Established 2007 on a former forest nursery, it holds about 170 autochthonous and exotic plant species labelled with QR codes.
Mediterranean Lingua Franca
Mediterranean Lingua Franca, also called Sabir or petit mauresque, was a Romance-based, mostly oral pidgin of Mediterranean and North African ports, lexified mainly by Italian and Spanish with simplified grammar; extinct since the late 19th century, documented chiefly by the 1830 Dictionnaire de la langue franque.
Mediterranean monk seal
Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus), rarest pinniped of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic; about 800–1,000 seals in Greece, Türkiye, Cyprus, Madeira, Cabo Blanco; IUCN vulnerable since 2023; breeds in sea caves.
Mediterranean mussel
Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Moule méditerranéenne), a Mytilidae bivalve native to the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, sibling to M. edulis; major farmed mussel, one of the 100 most invasive species, raft-cultured in Galicia.
Mediterranean Northwest Africa
Mediterranean Northwest Africa (FEOW ecoregion 502) is a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers ecoregion in Algeria, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia, draining the Atlas Mountains to the Mediterranean, with endemic fishes and Critical conservation status.
Mediterranean Oscillation
The Mediterranean Oscillation is an atmospheric teleconnection pattern, a pressure seesaw between the western and eastern Mediterranean basins, measured by an index introduced by Conte and colleagues in 1989.
Mediterranean Outflow Water
Mediterranean Outflow Water is the warm, highly saline water mass formed where dense Mediterranean water exits Gibraltar, mixes in the Gulf of Cádiz, and spreads into the North Atlantic.
Mediterranean race
Mediterranean race: a late 19th-to-mid 20th century anthropological subrace of the Caucasian race, defined by Giuseppe Sergi in 1895 and placed alongside Nordic and Alpine types; now rejected by modern genetics and anthropology.
Mediterranean Ridge
Mediterranean Ridge: submarine accretionary wedge of the Hellenic subduction zone, where Africa subducts beneath the Aegean at about 40 mm/yr; over 300 km wide, 2,000 km long, fastest growing accretionary complex on Earth, with abundant mud volcanoes and Messinian salt diapirs.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea, also known as the Med, is a semi-enclosed sea between Europe, Africa, and Asia, connected to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Mediterranean Shipping Company
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is a Swiss container shipping and logistics company headquartered in Geneva, founded in 1970 by Captain Gianluigi Aponte with a single ship, and the world's largest container carrier.
Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, commonly called a medicane, is a small, hurricane-like storm that forms over the Mediterranean Sea one to a few times per year.
MediTrust Health (镁信健康)
MediTrust Health (镁信健康) is a Chinese healthcare payments and insurtech company founded in Shanghai in 2017 by Zhang Xiaodong, linking insurers, drug makers, pharmacies, and patients.
Medium (TV series)
Medium (2005–2011) is a supernatural crime drama created by Glenn Gordon Caron, starring Patricia Arquette as psychic consultant Allison DuBois. Ran five seasons on NBC, two on CBS; 130 episodes; Emmy-winning lead performance.
Medium (website)
Medium (website), medium.com, is an online publishing platform founded in 2012 by Ev Williams and Biz Stone, combining blogging and social features with a $5 membership paywall and a Partner Program paying writers from member reading time.
Medium access control
Medium access control (MAC) is the data link sublayer that defines how devices access a shared medium and identify themselves, using MAC addresses such as Ethernet's 48-bit addresses.
Medium and large ring conformations
Medium and large ring conformations are the three-dimensional shapes of rings with seven or more atoms, where transannular interactions between inward-facing hydrogens dominate from cyclooctane to cycloundecane.