Sporades

[ spawr-uh-deez; Greek spaw-rah-thes ]

plural noun

two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the one (Northern Sporades ) off the E coast of Greece; the other (Southern Sporades ), including the Dodecanese, off the SW coast of Asia Minor.

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How to use Sporades in a sentence

He was also at Anaphe, one of the Sporades; which island was denominated Membliaros from one of his followers.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) | Jacob Bryant
At Anaphe, one of the Sporades, they were saved from a storm by Apollo.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 | Various
Sporades, a group of islands in the Ægean Sea, of which the largest is the Mitylene.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia | Edited by Rev. James Wood
But if by Syria we understand one of the Sporades or Cyclades, we are furnished with a ready solution of this enigma.
The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious | William Dool Killen
To the Sporades also are to be referred the islands about Crete, which I have already mentioned.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) | Strabo

British Dictionary definitions for Sporades

Sporades

/ (ˈspɒrəˌdiːz) /

pl n

two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey

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