The Mediterranean Sea was called Mare Nostrum in the Roman Empire .
The suggestion that the Latin mediterraneus , meaning `` inland '' or `` in the middle of land '' ( from medius , `` middle '' and terra , `` land '' ) is presumably some confusion with Neo Latin , as in the Roman Empire its name clearly was Mare Nostrum ( `` Our Sea '' ) Lowe ( 2002 ) , p.34 .
Mediterranean Sea