Everything about the Aegean Islands totally explained
The
Aegean Islands (
Nisiá Aigaíou; ) are a group of
islands in the
Aegean Sea, with mainland
Greece to the west and north and
Turkey to the east; the island of
Crete delimits the sea to the south. The
ancient name of the Aegean Sea,
Archipelago, was later applied to the islands it contains and is now used more generally, to refer to any island group.
The Greek Aegean Islands traditionally subdivided into seven groups, from north to south:
Almost all of the Aegean Islands belong to Greece, being split among nine administrative
peripheries.
Turkish possessions include
Imbros (Gökçeada),
Tenedos (Bozcaada), and eight more islets off Turkey's western coast.
Territoriality regarding the sea and some of the islands, as well as the airspace above them, is a source of
ongoing dispute between Greece and Turkey and has changed over time. The term
Italian Aegean Islands is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean islands conquered by
Italy during the
Italo-Turkish War in 1912 and annexed (through the
Treaty of Lausanne) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, including
Rhodes and
Castelrosso (Kastelorizo).
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