Aegean Islands

American  

plural noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

Then, many Greeks, particularly on the Aegean Islands, pitched in to help.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

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

Gone is Crete, and gone are the twenty-six Aegean Islands, twelve of them permanently united to their Hellenic motherland, while Italy temporarily occupies fourteen as a result of the Tripolitan war of 1911.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various