Is the Mediterranean a "demographic frontier" for Europe?

Fernand Braudel wrote in 1986: "The Mediterranean is not a frontier, but a place of exchange". Yet it's common to think of this sea as an economic and political frontier. Can such border-based reasoning also be applied to population dynamics, meaning that the Mediterranean is a "demographic border"?

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Source	L'Europe
Author	Dumont, Gérard-François
Maintainer	CCSD
Last Updated	May 11, 2026, 19:53 (UTC)
Created	May 11, 2026, 19:53 (UTC)
Identifier	ISBN: 978-2-7298-5292-4
Language	fr
contributor	Espaces, Nature et Culture (ENeC) ; Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator	Dumont, Gérard-François
date	2009-09-11T00:00:00
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