aegean island

Noun
  1. An island in the Aegean Sea (synset 108800479)
    is a type of: island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
    specific instances:
    • aegina, aigina - an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
    • chios, khios - an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece
    • cyclades, kikladhes - a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
    • dhodhekanisos, dodecanese - a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
    • lesbos, lesvos, mytilene - an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry
    • rhodes, rodhos - a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes
    is a part of: aegean, aegean sea - an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia

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