List of islands of the Aegean Sea

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This is a list of islands in the Aegean Sea . The Aegean islands have mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east. They are grouped into different archipelagos. The German names sometimes differ from the modern Greek , e.g. B. Salamis instead of modern Greek Σαλαμίνα Salamina . In the following overview, common German names and the modern Greek names are given. The following list attempts to capture the largest (inhabited) islands, but is not intended to be exhaustive.

Satellite image of the Aegean Islands
Belonging to Greece: dark blue, original possession (1832); pink, after the Balkan Wars (1913); red, after World War II (1947), before that in Italy; green: belonging to Turkey

Greece

The Greek Aegean Islands according to the Greek regions ( periféries ):

Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Island complex of the Northeast Aegean

Central Macedonia region

Island of Halkidiki (Νησιά Χαλκιδικής):

Region North Aegean

Island complex of the Northeast Aegean

Thessaly region

Archipelago of the Northern Sporades

(for Skyros see the section Central Greece region )

Attica region

Archipelago of the Saronic Islands

Archipelago of the Ionian Islands

Region South Aegean

Cyclades archipelago

Dodecanese archipelago

(see also list of the Dodecanese Islands )

Other regions

Other regions where islands are bounded by the Aegean Sea:

Crete region

(see also list of Cretan islands )

Peloponnese region

Central Greece region

  • Evia Εύβοια Évvia
  • Megalonisos Μεγαλόνησος Πεταλιών Megalónisos Petalión
  • Chersonisi Χερσονήσι Chersonísi
  • Styra Στύρα Stýra
Archipelago of the Northern Sporades

Turkey

Turkish Aegean Islands

Çanakkale (Province)

Balıkesir (Province)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ or Imbros Ίμβρος Ímvros (Greek)
  2. ↑ or Tenedos Τένεδος Ténedos (Greek)

See also