Aegean Islands
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The Aegean Islands (Greek: Αιγαίον Πέλαγος, Aigaíon Pélagos) are a group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east. The ancient name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago, was later applied to the islands it contains and is now used, generally, to refer to any island group.
The Aegean Islands are subdivided into numerous groups (from north to south):
- Northeastern Aegean Islands
- Sporades
- Euboea
- Argo-Saronic Islands
- Cyclades
- Dodecanese (Southern Sporades)
- Crete
Almost all of the Aegean Islands currently belong to Greece and are split among nine peripheries. However, territoriality regarding the sea and some of the islands is a source of ongoing dispute between Greece and Turkey and has changed over time. The Italian Aegean Islands (Italian: Isole Italiane dell-’Egeo) is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean islands conquered by Italy during the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 and annexed (through the Treaty of Lausanne) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, including Rhodes and Castelrosso (Kastelorizo).
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Aegean Islands • Attica • Central Greece • Crete • Epirus • Ionian Islands • Macedonia • Peloponnese • Thessaly • Thrace
Mount Athos (autonomous region in Macedonia)
