Aegean
- noun
- /eɪˈdʒiːən/
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Mar Egeo
- Tourists flock to the beautiful islands of the Aegean Sea during the summer months.
A drop of honey is lost in the vastness of the Aegean Sea.
- A drop of honey is lost in the vastness of the Aegean Sea.
- Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western approaches to the Aegean.
- And she so she would, she would dive naked into the Aegean Sea to re enact the, the birth of, of Aphrodite.
Examples
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Heinrich only travelled in parts of western Turkey and the Aegean, and he never seems to have gone further South than Ephesus.
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Spartans who took this point of view had it in mind to take the place of Athens as the great imperial power in the Aegean and beyond.
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So you still have to cross the Aegean Sea, the three miles of the Aegean to the Greek islands.
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You know I believe this part of the world, the aegean, the islands, could change a person's life forever.
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So he, he died on the Aegean, on the French hospital ship, on the Aegean Sea, so between Turkey and Greece.
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And up until this point, the Ptolemies were big players in in the Aegean, which is a fact.
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Simultaneously, an epic struggle raged across the Aegean Sea, Venetians and Ottomans, now almost equal in naval power.
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The ancient civilizations flourished around the Aegean, making it a vital trade route between Greece and Turkey.
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Historians study artifacts from the Aegean to gain insight into ancient trade and culture.
Synonyms
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A part of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey
Compounds
Ancient cultures on islands like Crete and the Greek coast before classical Greece
Surface Forms
Etymology
Aegean originally named the sea after the Greek figure Aegeus in a well-known myth, which helps you remember this specific body of water. That's why the stretch of water between Greece and Turkey is called the Aegean.