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| Aegean |
of, pertaining to, located in, or bordering on the Aegean Sea. [2/3 definitions] |
| archipelago |
(cap.) the Aegean Sea. [1/3 definitions] |
| Balkan Peninsula |
a European peninsula between the Adriatic Sea on the west and the Black and Aegean Seas on the east. Some of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula are Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria. |
| Delos |
a small island in the Aegean archipelago sacred as the birth place of the Greek gods Apollo and Artemis. |
| Greece |
a Balkan country on the Mediterranean between the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. |
| Icaria |
an island southwest of Samos in the Aegean Sea, which, according to Greek mythology, was named by Daedalus in honor of his son Icarus, whom he buried there. |
| Ionia |
a region along the Aegean Sea of western Asia Minor (present day Turkey) colonized by ancient Greeks. [1/2 definitions] |
| Ionian |
of or pertaining to Ionia, a region along the Aegean Sea of western Asia Minor (present day Turkey) colonized by Ancient Greeks. [1/2 definitions] |
| Ionic |
of or pertaining to a region of ancient Greece in coastal Asia Minor and adjacent Aegean islands or its people, culture, language, or the like. [2/3 definitions] |
| Kikonia |
a city in eastern Thrace on the Aegean Sea. |
| Kikonian |
of or pertaining to Kikonia, a city in eastern Thrace on the Aegean Sea. [1/3 definitions] |
| Lebynthos |
an island in the Aegean Sea over which, according to Greek mythology, Daedalus and Icarus flew while escaping Crete. |
| Maeander |
ancient name of the Menderes River which flows through western Turkey into the Aegean Sea. |
| Samos |
a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea, which, in Greek mythology, was part of the kingdom of Odysseus. |
| Thrace |
a wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea, colonized by ancient Greeks and encompassing parts of present day Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. |
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