The style of food in the Gaza Strip owes much to its port, which was on the ancient spice route linking south Arabia and the Mediterranean.

BBC: Keeping alive Gaza's culinary traditions

Georgia is not the most direct route for pumping Azeri oil to the Mediterranean Sea.

NPR: Georgia Hopes for Boost from Caspian Pipeline

The boats set sail in the Mediterranean for the first time as part of a new route through India and South Asia.

BBC: Walker to set sail in Volvo race

One was the little Cunard liner Carpathia, eastbound that night en route from New York to the Mediterranean.

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These ships will thus have to take an extremely lengthy and circuitous route even to get into the Mediterranean, let along to get all the way to Syria.

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It may or may not become possible when the fighting is over to devise an international zone between Egypt and Israel which might serve as a secure additional route between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

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For the 100th race this year, more than 200 cyclists will begin the 2, 088- mile route on this mountainous Mediterranean island.

BBC: Ten weekends in Europe's great outdoors

The Gulf of Aden is a key route for ships passing from the Arabian Sea and Indian Oceans to the southern Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal.

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