Italy is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea.

The Mediterranean Sea is to the south the Aegean Sea to the west and the Black Sea to the north.

Her father told her Amjad had tried to make the trip across the Mediterranean.

In 2015, thousands of African migrants died while trying to cross the Mediterranean.

The list of over 17,000 people who drowned in the Mediterranean while attempting to cross the sea.

Thousands of migrants try to cross the Mediterranean every month to reach Europe.

He started his journey in Tunisia and crossed the Mediterranean sea to Istanbul.

However, not all those crossing the Mediterranean to Greece and Italy are Syrians.

The Suez Canal ( ) is an artificial sea level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

This coastal axis has facilitated connections with Europe, either by sea through the Mediterranean, or by land through Catalonia.

The continent needs to recall its past more sensitively, and be more generous to the desperate people crossing the Mediterranean.

The family crosses the Mediterranean Sea on a small boat, ultimately choosing a small town near Hamburg, Germany to start their new lives.

They also ranked third in terms of the number of migrants arriving on the continent via the Mediterranean in the summer of 2015, while of those who perish attempting that crossing, Eritreans account for more than half.

A report published by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) states In the first six months of this year, 137,000 refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea,

While Guinea is the country which sends the third most migrants to Europe across the Mediterranean, he was indignant, outspoken, and declared

For years, thousands of migrants and refugees from Africa and Middle East have been trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe to escape poverty and political persecution.

In a world focused on the East, however, the main linkages are the Pacific and Indian Oceans and, given today s close relationship between Asia and Europe, the Mediterranean Sea.

Indeed, one of the first decisions taken by Egypt s interim government was to allow an Iranian vessel to cross into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal for the first time in three decades.

And, to Europe s immediate south, across the Mediterranean, new risks are emerging in the vastness of North Africa and the Sahara, including the threat of an Al Qaeda state in northern Mali.

Currently, when migrants brave the Mediterranean, they are fleeing from exactly the same things, from hunger, from wars, from wars that many times are products of European decisions made during the partition of the Ottoman Empire, or from the manner in which they created artificial borders.

Aware Migrants is a social media campaign that aims at informing migrants from 15 African countries about the dangers of migrating across the Sahara desert, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea.

Altogether, the number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has surpassed 300,000 this year, up from 219,000 during the whole of 2014, according to the UNHCR.

These leaders would do better to look across the Mediterranean at Cyprus and see how without giving up claims to disputed land refugees can live in dignity and honor.

Asylum seekers provided with a clear status and promises of safety could be induced to wait in Turkey and other frontline countries, rather than risk a dangerous Mediterranean crossing.

In spite of the drizzling rain, participants were invited to lie down for ten minutes alongside a long banner carrying the names and circumstances of 17,306 migrants who perished between 1993 and 2012 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.