The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.
I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
Israel is not a European country and doesn't consider itself as such.
Polypotamia – Cheronesus -- Pelispia
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.
