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Mare Nostrum
Roman policy about owning the Mediterranean Sea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mare Nostrum (/ˌmɑːrɪ ˈnɒstrəm/;[1] Latin: "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In Classical Latin, it would have been pronounced [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.t̪rʊ̃ː], and in Ecclesiastical Latin, it is pronounced [ˈmaː.rɛ ˈnɔs.t̪rum].
For other uses, see Mare Nostrum (disambiguation).
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In the decades following the 1861 unification of Italy, Italian nationalists and Italian fascists who saw Italy as the successor state to the Roman Empire attempted to revive the term.[2]