Dodecanese
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- noun
- /ˌdoʊdɪˈkæniz/
- Karpathos is a rather isolated Dodecanese island situated between Rhodes and Crete.
- Dodecanese islands
Examples
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Karpathos is a rather isolated Dodecanese island situated between Rhodes and Crete.
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The next crucial period is seen to be after World War II, when Kalymnos, along with the rest of the Dodecanese, became part of Greece, and dynamite throwing moved from being a sporadic act of resistance to the Italians to a ritual practice.
Academic text (1996) -
Khalki, 10 miles off Rhodes' northwestern shores in the Dodecanese, is yet another charming, tranquil island as yet undiscovered by the packaged tourist hordes.
Academic text (1999) -
Khalki, 10 miles off Rhodes' northwestern shores in the Dodecanese, is yet another charming, tranquil island as yet undiscovered by the packaged tourist hordes.
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"Considered the most beautiful and mystical island in the Dodecanese, Patmos first attracted international visitors in the 1960s.
Synonyms
A group of Greek islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dodecanese = dodeca + nese
Although historically built from elements meaning 'twelve' + a demonymic suffix, those elements are not familiar or productive for an average B1 learner, so the meaning 'group of islands' is not transparently deducible from the parts.
Etymology
The word Dodecanese comes from Greek parts dodeka 'twelve' and nesos 'island', so it originally meant 'the twelve islands'. Think of a 'dozen' of islands — that image helps explain why Dodecanese is the name for this group of islands in the Aegean Sea today.