Aegean Islands (Greece) Νήσοι Αιγαίου Nísoi Aigaíou | |
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.svg) Aegean Islands (blue) within Greece | |
| Country |  Greece |
Aegean Islands (Turkey) Ege Adaları | |
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.svg) Aegean Islands (blue) within Turkey | |
| Country |  Turkey |
TheAegean Islands[a] are the group of islands in theAegean Sea, with mainlandGreece to the west and north andTurkey to the east; the island ofCrete delimits the sea to the south, those ofRhodes,Karpathos andKasos to the southeast. Theancient 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.
The vast majority of the Aegean Islands belong to Greece, being split among nineadministrative regions. The only sizable possessions of Turkey in the Aegean Sea areImbros (Gökçeada) andTenedos (Bozcaada), in the northeastern part of the sea. Various smaller islets off Turkey's western coast are also under Turkish sovereignty.
The islands have hot summers and mild winters, ahot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in theKöppen climate classification).
The Aegean Islands are traditionally subdivided into seven groups, from north to south:
The termItalian Islands of the Aegean (Italian:Isole Italiane dell’Egeo) is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean Islands conquered byItaly during theItalo-Turkish War in 1912 and annexed (through theTreaty of Lausanne) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, includingRhodes andKastellorizo. In the Treaty of Peace in 1947, these Italian-controlled islands were ceded to Greece.
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