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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 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 .
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; University of the Aegean, a university based in Mytilene, Greece; Ege University, a university based in ...
It includes many small islands which vary between 1,200 and 6,000 in the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea. [2] The largest islands are Crete , Euboea , Lesbos , Rhodes and Chios . Greece's EEZ is bordered to the west by Albania and Italy , to the south by Libya and Egypt , and to the east by Cyprus and Turkey .
Athens had the superior navy and controlled nearly all the islands in the Aegean Sea. Melos was the only significant island in the Aegean Sea that Athens did not control. [2] The people of Melos were Dorians, the same ethnic group as the Spartans, but they were independent of the Spartan empire; the Athenians were Ionians.
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 ).