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unusual facts about Eastern Mediterranean


The Gourd and the Palm-tree

The first recorder of the fable, Boniohannes de Messana, was from the Sicilian Crusader port now called Messina, so there is the possibility that it might originally have come from the Eastern Mediterranean.


Levant

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia).

Pistacia terebinthus

In the Eastern Mediterranean Coast, Syria, Lebanon and Israel, a similar species, Pistacia palaestina, fills the same ecological niche of this species and is also known as turpentine.


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Aleppo pepper

Although a common condiment, its use in the United States outside of Armenian, Syrian and Turkish immigrant communities was rare until the 20th century, with one source (Los Angeles magazine) dating its rise in use among the broader U.S. population to the 1994 publication of The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean (ISBN 978-0-06-016651-9) by Paula Wolfert.

Battle of Leros

This was confirmed at the Quebec Conference, where it was decided to divert all available shipping from the Eastern Mediterranean.

Black Assarca shipwreck

The 1997 excavation team, headed by Ralph K. Pedersen, discovered various ceramics of Near Eastern/Mediterranean origin, including amphoras of a type known as "Ayla-Axum Amphoras".

Cerinthus

His use of the term demiurge (literally, craftsman) for the creator fits Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, which dominated the learned environment of the eastern Mediterranean, see also Hellenistic Judaism.

Clive King

Set in the eastern Mediterranean world of the 15th century BC, the story follows the adventures of the three sons of a Phoenician master builder through three loosely linked stories in which they travel to Egypt (Sinai), to the court of King Minos (Crete) and north to Ugarit.

Colin Grazier

Able Seaman Colin Grazier, GC was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the eastern Mediterranean when capturing codebooks vital for the breaking of the German naval "Shark" Enigma cipher from the sinking U-559.

Diodora demartiniorum

This species was found in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off Djerba, Tunisia.

Fynes

Fynes Moryson (or Morison) (1566–1630), travelled in the 1590s on the European continent and the eastern Mediterranean lands

Genoese colonies

In the eastern Mediterranean, Genoa was greatly advanced by the Treaty of Nymphaeum (1261) with the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, which, in exchange for the aid to the Byzantine reconquest of Constantinople, actually ousted the Venetians from the straits leading to the Black Sea.

Gigliato

This type of coin was widely copied in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially by the Turks, such as the Emir of Saruhan.

Guynemer of Boulogne

He assembled a fleet of Danes, Frisians, and Flemings and set out from northern Europe for the eastern Mediterranean in Spring 1097.

Koma Civakên Kurdistan

These are namely, Çukurova (one of the provinces in the eastern Mediterranean part of Turkey), Amed (in Diyarbakir, one of the provinces in the southeastern Anatolia), Serhat (Erzurum, one of the provinces in the eastern part of Turkey) and the Aegean region.

Mycenaean

Helladic period, the material-cultural period in the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age associated with the Mycenaean Greeks

Pencil Pine

Cupressus sempervirens - Mediterranean Cypress, native to the eastern Mediterranean region and widely planted as ornamentals in gardens

Rajasthani people

Rajasthan was among the important centers of trade with Rome, eastern Mediterranean and southeast Asia.