Aegean Islands

American  

plural noun

1. the islands of the Aegean Sea, including the Dodecanese, Cyclades, and Sporades.

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Aegean Islands British  

plural noun

1. the islands of the Aegean Sea, including the Cyclades, Dodecanese, Euboea, and Sporades. The majority are under Greek administration

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Example Sentences

Today, any journalist who covers refugee arrivals to the Aegean Islands or the Evros land border with Turkey risks arrest.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2022

Then, many Greeks, particularly on the Aegean Islands, pitched in to help.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Known as the Aegean Islands, most of these belong to Greece.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2015

His actual negotiating points with the EU for the past few months have been over relative trifles: reductions in the value-added tax percentages of certain Aegean Islands, changes in the retirement age of state-sector employees.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2015

The Slavs, who were not a maritime race, did not colonize the Aegean Islands, but a few Slavonic place-names in Crete seem to indicate that some of the invaders reached that island.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various