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The Aegean Islands are a group of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s in the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
, with mainland Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 to the west and north and Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 to the east; the island of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
 delimits the sea to the south. The ancient
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago
Archipelago

An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Italian language arcipelago , derived ultimately from Greek language arkhon and pelagos ....
, 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
Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
.






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The Aegean Islands are a group of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s in the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
, with mainland Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 to the west and north and Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 to the east; the island of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
 delimits the sea to the south. The ancient
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago
Archipelago

An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Italian language arcipelago , derived ultimately from Greek language arkhon and pelagos ....
, 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:
  • Northeastern Aegean Islands
    North Aegean islands

    The North Aegean islands are a number of disconnected islands in the north Aegean Sea, also known as the Northeast Aegean islands, belonging to Greece and Turkey....
  • Sporades
    Sporades

    The Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. It consists of 24 islands, of which five are inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Peristera and Skyros....
  • Euboea
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
  • Argo-Saronic Islands
    Argo-Saronic Islands

    Argo-Saronic Islands is a term combining the islands in the neighboring Saronic Gulf and Argolic Gulf, both of which open into the Aegean Sea. It is especially apt in describing Hydra, Saronic Islands and Dokos, which do not really lie in either gulf....
  • Cyclades
    Cyclades

    The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
  • Dodecanese
    Dodecanese

    The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
     (Southern Sporades)
  • Crete
    Crete

    Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....


Almost all of the Aegean Islands belong to Greece, being split among nine administrative peripheries
Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
. Turkish
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 possessions include Imbros
Imbros

Imbros, officially referred to as G?k?eada in Turkey , is the largest island of Turkey, part of ?anakkale Province. It is located at the entrance of Saros Bay in the northern Aegean Sea, also the westernmost point of Turkey ....
 (Gökçeada), Tenedos
Tenedos

Tenedos, officially referred to as Bozcaada in Turkey is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada Districts of Turkey of ?anakkale Province Provinces of Turkey in Turkey....
 (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
Aegean dispute

The term Aegean dispute refers to a set of interrelated controversial issues between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty and related rights in the area of the Aegean Sea....
 and has changed over time. The term Italian Aegean Islands is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean islands conquered by Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 during the Italo-Turkish War
Italo-Turkish War

The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy from September 29, 1911 to October 18, 1912....
 in 1912 and annexed (through the Treaty of Lausanne
Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and Eastern Thrace parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of S?vres that was signed by the Istanbul-based Sublime Porte; as the consequence of the Turkish War of Independence between the Allies of World W...
) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, including Rhodes
Rhodes

Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
 and Castelrosso (Kastelorizo)
Kastelorizo

Kastelorizo, , is a small Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece located in the southeastern Mediterranean. It lies roughly off the south coast of Turkey, about east of Rhodes, almost halfway between Rhodes and Antalya....
.

See also

  • List of Aegean Islands
  • List of islands of Turkey
    List of islands of Turkey

    This is a list of islands of Turkey. In the parentheses following the name of the island is the province which the island is a part of. If there are two parentheses, in the first is the other/official name of the island, in the second one is the province which the island is a part of....
  • List of islands of Greece
    List of islands of Greece

    The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants....