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Explanation: Roman domination of the Mediterranean Sea was so total that, eventually, the Romans simply took to calling it Mare Nostrum - literally, ‘Our Sea’.
But calling the Romans socialist in any way shape or form is quite a stretch.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/t5pozp/the_english_channel_in_different_languages/
Clearly the correct name is the English Channel and we’ll very carefully avoid mentioning the Gulf Of Mexico.
