mare nostrum

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mare nostrum
    n 1: (our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mare nostrum \mare nostrum\ n. [L. our sea.]
   The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the
   Mediterranean Sea.
   [WordNet 1.5]
    

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