Mare Nostrum (Latin for Our Sea) was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. The term mare nostrum originally was used by Romans to refer to the Tyrrhenian Sea, following its conquest of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica during the Punic Wars with Carthage. By 30 BC, Roman domination extended from the Iberian Peninsula to Egypt, and mare nostrum began to be used in the context of the whole Mediterranean Sea.
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