Aegean Sea

noun

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

Aegean Sea

noun

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey

Aegean Sea

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

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

Example Sentences

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

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In September 1922 Hemingway saw wartime atrocities when the Turkish army pushed the fleeing Greeks into the Aegean Sea.

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An inflatable boat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum killing seven people, Turkish media reported Friday.

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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.

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"How could I go with him in that boat?" she asks herself, remembering how they crossed the Aegean Sea with 60 others, packed in a small boat.

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