Sporades

[ spawr-uh-deez; Greek spaw-rah-thes ]

plural noun

1. two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the one Northern Sporades off the E coast of Greece; the other Southern Sporades, including the Dodecanese, off the SW coast of Asia Minor.

Sporades

/ ˈspɒrəˌdiːz /

plural noun

1. two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades , lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades , which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey

Example Sentences

He was also at Anaphe, one of the Sporades; which island was denominated Membliaros from one of his followers.

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At Anaphe, one of the Sporades, they were saved from a storm by Apollo.

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Sporades, a group of islands in the Ægean Sea, of which the largest is the Mitylene.

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But if by Syria we understand one of the Sporades or Cyclades, we are furnished with a ready solution of this enigma.

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To the Sporades also are to be referred the islands about Crete, which I have already mentioned.

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