Latin Arch or Latin Arc (French, Occitan: Arc latin; Catalan: Arc LlatÃ; Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician: Arco Latino) is a name coined for the littoral around the northwestern Mediterranean Basin, which stretches from the bottom of the Italian Peninsula at Malta, along the eastern coast of Sicily, the west Italian coast, Southern France, the eastern Spanish coast, finishing at Gibraltar, encapsulating the Balearic Islands, Corsica, and Sardinia.
This forms the shape of an arch, and seen as the core of Latin Europe.
Read more about Latin Arch: Arco Latino (Organization), Mediterranean Latin Arch (Organization)
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