Aegean Islands

<h2 id="groups-of-islands">Groups of islands</h2>
<p>The Aegean Islands are traditionally subdivided into seven groups, from north to south:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/North_Aegean_islands/yXW4Bzom">Northeastern Aegean Islands</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Euboea/YEvmF1Eb">Euboea</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sporades/xswNMGo2">Sporades</a> (<i>Northern Sporades</i>)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cyclades/gmfV8jh9">Cyclades</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Saronic_Islands/qAbYzKQu">Saronic Islands</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Dodecanese/Hnzj5H4o">Dodecanese</a> (<i><a href="/facts/Southern_Sporades/GWaHq3z5">Southern Sporades</a></i>)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Crete/VSqxTU9u">Crete</a></li></ul>
<p>The term <a href="/facts/Italian_Islands_of_the_Aegean/nPNHDacG">Italian Islands of the Aegean</a> (<a href="/facts/Italian_language/YXsmvlQG">Italian</a>: <i>Isole Italiane dell’Egeo</i>) is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean Islands conquered by <a href="/facts/Italy/tUf0PDYF">Italy</a> during the <a href="/facts/Italo-Turkish_War/bmQ0fWc5">Italo-Turkish War</a> in 1912 and annexed (through the <a href="/facts/Treaty_of_Lausanne_(1923)/u3edX8Q9">Treaty of Lausanne</a>) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, including <a href="/facts/Rhodes/07LazWIX">Rhodes</a> and <a href="/facts/Kastellorizo/ws3zbHJu">Kastellorizo</a>. In the Treaty of Peace in 1947, these Italian-controlled islands were ceded to Greece.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_Aegean_Islands/qPjIlT3v">List of Aegean Islands</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_islands_of_Greece/EQBxrjvE">List of islands of Greece</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_islands_of_Turkey/bfD4hxD8">List of islands of Turkey#Aegean Sea islands</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="sources">Sources</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070224161843/http://www.bartleby.com/65/ae/AegeanSe.html">Aegean Sea</a>, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001–05.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Islands of the Aegean Sea at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>/iˈdʒiːən/, ih-JEE-ən; Greek: Νησιά Αιγαίου, romanized: Nisiá Aigaíou; Turkish: Ege Adaları <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank">/wiki/Help:IPA/English</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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