Mediterranean Basin
Region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Mediterranean Region" redirects here. For other uses, see Mediterranean Region (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the drainage basin of the Mediterranean Sea.
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən), also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation. It was a very important part of Mediterranean civilizations.
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