id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-198 Aegean Islands - Wikipedia .html text/html 1042 262 65 Aegean Islands Wikipedia Aegean Islands (Greece) Aegean Islands (blue) within Greece Aegean Islands (Turkey) Satellite view of the Aegean Sea and Islands The Aegean Islands (Greek: Νησιά Αιγαίου, romanized: Nisiá Aigaíou; Turkish: Ege Adaları) are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast. The ancient Greek name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago (ἀρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos) was later applied to the islands it contains and is now used more generally, to refer to any island group. West Aegean Islands (Euboea) Ancient episcopal sees of the Roman province of Lesbos (the Aegean Islands) listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[1] List of Aegean Islands Media related to Islands of the Aegean Sea at Wikimedia Commons Categories: Aegean islands ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-198.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-198.txt