Here each country around the Mediterranean sea is listed with a collection of recipes from that country.This page also gives recipes that are common to all countries in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean sea being the region that, after the defeat of Carthage the Ancient Romans referred to as mare nostrum (our sea).

These recipes also cover all historical periods from ancient stone-age recipes through the recipes of Ancient Rome to latest fusion recipes.

Mediterranean also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation. It was a very important part of Mediterranean civilizations.

The Mediterranean Basin covers portions of three continents: Europe, Africa, and Asia. It is distinct from the drainage basin, which extends much further south and north due to major rivers ending in the Mediterranean Sea, such as the Nile and Rhône.

Neanderthals inhabited western Asia and the non-glaciated portions of Europe starting about 230,000 years ago. Modern humans moved into western Asia from Africa less than 100,000 years ago. Modern humans, known as Cro-Magnons, moved into Europe approximately 50–40,000 years ago.

Food crops, including wheat, chickpeas, and olives, along with sheep and goats, were domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean in the 9th millennium BCE, which allowed for the establishment of agricultural settlements. Near Eastern crops spread to southeastern Europe in the 7th millennium BCE. Poppy and oats were domesticated in Europe from the 6th to the 3rd millennium BCE. Agricultural settlements spread around the Mediterranean Basin. Megaliths were constructed in Europe from 4500 – 1500 BCE.

Mediterranean

Southern Europe

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Albania	Tirana	Republic of Albania/Republika e Shqipërisë (Albanian)
		Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbo-Croatian (Latin): Bosna i Hercegovina/ Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic): Босна и Херцеговина
		Croatia	Zagreb	Republic of Croatia/Republika Hrvatska (Croatian)
		Gibraltar	Gibraltar	Gibraltar
		Greece	Athens	Hellenic Republic/Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ([Ellinikí Dimokratía] Greek)
		Italy	Rome	Italian Republic/Repubblica Italiana (Italian)
		Malta	Valletta	Republic of Malta/Repubblika ta' Malta (Maltese)
		Monaco	Monaco	Principality of Monaco/Principauté de Monaco (French)/ Prinçipatu de Mùnegu (Monégasque)
		Montenegro	Podgorica	Montenegro/Crna Gora, Црна Гора (Montenegrin)
		Slovenia	Ljubljana	Republic of Slovenia/Republika Slovenija (Slovene)
		Spain	Madrid	Kingdom of Spain/Reino de España (Spanish)

Western Asia

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Turkey	Ankara	Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
		Israel	Jerusalem	מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל/دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل
		Lebanon	Beiruit	الجمهورية اللبنانية (Arabic: al-Jumhūrīyah al-Lubnānīyah)
		Palestine	Ramallah	دولة فلسطين (Arabic: Dawlat Filasṭīn)
		Syria	Damascus	الجمهورية العربية السورية (Arabic: al-Jumhūriyya al-ʿArabiyya as-Sūriya)
		Akrotiri and Dhekelia	Episkopi	Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
		Cyprus	Nicosia	Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία (Greek)/Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti (Turkish)
		Northern Cyprus (Unrecognised)	North Nicosia	Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti (Turkish)

North Africa

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		Algeria	Algiers	الجزائر (al-Jazāʾir)/Algérie
		Pelagie Islands (Italy)	Lampedusa	Pelagie/Isole Pelagie/Ìsuli Pilaggî
		Ceuta (Spain)	—	Ceuta/Sebta/سَبْتَة (Sabtah)
		Egypt	Cairo	مِصر (Miṣr)
		Libya	Tripoli	ليبيا (Lībiyā)
		Melilla (Spain)	—	Melilla/Mlilt/مليلية
		Morocco	Rabat	المغرب (al-maḡrib)/ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ(lmeɣrib)/Maroc
		Tunisia	Tunis	تونس (Tūnis)/Tunest/Tunisie