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What does the mare nostrum mean and why did the romans use that term

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Mare Nostrum (Latin for "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In the years following the unification of Italy in 1861, Italian nationalists who saw Italy as the successor state to the Roman Empire attempted to revive the term
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it means our sea in Latin.
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