La Méditerranée ou la mer Blanche : couleurs géographiques et noms de mer

• Published in: ILCEA
• Main Author: Tamba, Irène
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: UGA Éditions/Université Grenoble Alpes 2019
• Subjects: couleurs géographiques; points cardinaux; systèmes de dénomination des mers; geographical colours; cardinal points; sea naming system; geo; litt; Blanche; Noire; White Sea
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ilcea/8313

The Turkish name for the Mediterranean Sea is Akdeniz, that is “White Sea”, as opposed to Karadeniz or “Black Sea”. This study aims at examining and criticizing the explanatory principle according to which the colour in such sea-names does not fit with some natural property of their waters, but rath...