Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the abbreviation of southern Europe, including the Iberian Peninsula, the Italian peninsula and the southern Balkan peninsula, by Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece and other countries, sometimes also known as the Mediterranean Europe, because most of the southern European countries close to the Mediterranean. Southern Europe across the Mediterranean and Asia and Africa, across the two continents, since ancient times with West Asia and North Africa close, with the important ancient civilization origin; for the Western world, southern Europe also gave birth to the ancient Greek, ancient Roman culture, established The early Christian society laid the foundations for the Western ideology and knowledge system. ...