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Aegean Sea

American  

noun

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

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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At the start of 2025, Santorini and nearby parts of the Aegean Sea were rattled by tens of thousands of earthquakes.

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

He added the Dardanelles Strait, a waterway linking the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, was closed to allow water-dropping planes and helicopters to operate safely.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

Powell could have bailed for friends, drinks on ice, the Aegean Sea.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.'

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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