Aegean Islands
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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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
Frequently outshone by the idyllic Aegean Islands, and overshadowed by the ancient glories of Athens, Greece’s second-largest city is hardly a household name.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2018
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
He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and spent the next travelling in all sorts of strange and poetic places—Japan, India, the Greek mountains, the Aegean Islands.
From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison
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