Mare Nostrum forces arrived to assist the Italian invasion. Despite periods of Axis ascendancy during the Battle of the Mediterranean it was never realized, and ended altogether with the final Italian defeat of September 1943. The term "Mare Nostrum" was chosen as the theme for the Inaugural Conference of the Society for Mediterranean Law and Culture, being held in June 2012 at the University of Cagliari Faculty of Law, Sardinia, Italy ("La Conferenza Inaugurale della Società di Diritto e Cultura del Mediterraneo"). In this contemporary usage, the term is intended to embrace the full diversity of Mediterranean cultures, with a particular focus
Mare Nostrum (video game) around Sicily and main land Italy. The first public release of the modification was on 1 March 2008. Subsequent additional releases quickly came to address software bugs and gameplay issues with the 1.1 release on 8 March 2008 and 1.2 release on 23 March 2008. On October 17, 2008, "Mare Nostrum" was released on Steam. Due to Steam's automatic update feature, version numbers were dropped and all further versions were released exclusively on Steam. On December 11, 2009 "Mare Nostrum" received a large content update through Steam which added Steam Achievements, making it the first Red Orchestra mod to do