Carpathian Sea
The Carpathian Sea ( Greek Καρπάθιο πέλαγος Karpáthio pélagos , after its largest island, Karpathos ) is a southeastern part of the Aegean Sea . It extends roughly between the east coast of Crete in the southwest, the island of Astypalea in the north and the southern islands of the Southern Sporades to Rhodes in the far east.
The term was already used in ancient times ( ancient Greek Καρπάθιον πέλαγος , Latin mare carpathium ). The names for the northern adjacent Icarian and the western Cretan Sea also come from antiquity . The Levantic Sea connects to the south and south-east . This sea area up to the coast of Egypt was called Mare Aegyptium (Egyptian Sea) in ancient times .
In the Carpathian Sea (apart from Karpathos and Kasos ) there are only a few small, uninhabited rocky islands, which are important as breeding areas for endangered bird species.