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It could have originated from the Aegean root Asis which means "muddy and silty" as a description of the eastern shores of the Aegean Sea. It could derive from the borrowed Semitic root Asu, which means varyingly "rising" or "light", of course a directional referring to the sunrise, Asia thus meaning 'Eastern Land'.
The Aegean Sea would later come to be under the control, albeit briefly, of the Kingdom of Macedonia. Philip II and his son Alexander the Great led a series of conquests that led not only to the unification of the Greek mainland and the control of the Aegean Sea under his rule, but also the destruction of the Achaemenid Empire. After Alexander ...
Aegean Sea Islands map showing island groups Satellite view of the Aegean Sea and Islands. The Aegean Islands [a] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.
Aegean civilizations; Aegean languages, a group of ancient languages and proposed language family; Aegean Sea (theme), a naval theme of the Byzantine Empire; Aegean Airlines; Aegean Macedonia, an irredentist term for the Greek region of Macedonia; Aegean Records, independent record label founded by singer and songwriter George Michael
Because of the prevalence of -assa place names and words scattered around all sides of the Aegean Sea, the possessive suffix was sometimes considered evidence of a shared non-Indo-European language or an Aegean Sprachbund preceding the arrivals of Luwians and Greeks. It is, however, possible to account for the Luwian possessive construction as ...
The original meaning may have been 'the sea in the middle of the earth', rather than 'the sea enclosed by land'. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ancient Iranians called it the "Roman Sea", in Classic Persian texts was called Daryāy-e Rōm ( دریای روم ) which may be from Middle Persian form, Zrēh ī Hrōm ( 𐭦𐭫𐭩𐭤 𐭩 𐭤𐭫𐭥𐭬 ).
Aegean Sea with island groups Extent of the Aegean Sea. This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group.
The Aegean region (Turkish: Ege Bölgesi) is one of the 7 geographical regions of Turkey. The largest city in the region is İzmir . Other big cities are Manisa , Aydın , Denizli , Muğla , Afyonkarahisar and Kütahya .