Aegean Sea

American  

noun

1. an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey.

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Aegean Sea British  

noun

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey

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Aegean Sea Cultural  

1. An arm of the Mediterranean Sea off southeastern Europe between Greece and Turkey.

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This sea was a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete, Greece, Rome, and Persia (now Iran).

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Aegean Sea

Wildfires have also broken out in Greece, on the island of Paros in the Aegean Sea and the southern town of Trifylia on the Greek mainland.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Turkey negotiated its right to charge fees amid tensions in the 1930s with Italy, which was then in control of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

In 1956, two powerful earthquakes struck the southern Aegean Sea between Santorini and the nearby island of Amorgos, only 13 minutes apart.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026

Their family made the perilous journey across the Aegean Sea in 2015, and the sisters saved other people from drowning along the way.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Then in the 1980s, most of the sponges in parts of the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea became infected with pollution.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler