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Aegean Islands

American  

plural noun

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


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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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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