aegean sea

     

The Aegean Sea Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος([Aigaío Pélagos] (help·info)); Turkish: Ege Denizi, Aalar Denizi) is a sea arm of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus. The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes. The Aegean Region, Turkey, consists of nine provinces in southwestern Turkey, in part bordering on the Aegean sea.

Trivia about aegean sea

  • In 700 B.C. Greeks first crossed this sea to colonize Samothrace
  • Islands located in this arm of the Mediterranean include the Cyclades & Dodecanese
  • Plate pressure is compressing the Mediterranean, but this sea, bordering Greece, is expanding
  • This sea may have been named for Theseus' father
  • It's an arm of the Mediterranean
  • Lesbos & the Cyclades are found in this sea
  • The Sea of Crete is the southernmost part of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean
  • Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece
  • The ancient poet Sappho hailed from an island in this sea
  • Greece is bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea & on the east by this sea
  • Most of the Greek Isles are in this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

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