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Detailed explanation-1: -The term Mare Nostrum originally was used by the Ancient Romans to refer to the Tyrrhenian Sea after their conquest of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica during the Punic Wars with Carthage.

Detailed explanation-2: -In antiquity Adriatic shores were settled by Greek colonists and, as Rome expanded, it became a Roman lake within a wider Mediterranean Roman lake: Mare Nostrum, or ‘our sea’, as the Romans called it.