North Aegean Islands

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Islands of the North Aegean

The term North Aegean Islands is usually used in German to refer to the Greek islands of the northern Aegean , i.e. the islands of the Greek regions of Macedonia , Thrace and the islands of the North Aegean region north of Lesbos . They do not form an archipelago in the true sense of the word. In a broader sense, the Turkish islands of Gökçeada and Bozcaada are also included. The North Aegean Islands belong in the broader sense to the Greek Sporades . The Northern Sporades and the island of Lesbos are also occasionally counted among the North Aegean Islands in German travel literature. The term Northeast Aegean Islands is also used for the entirety of the North and East Aegean Islands .

The Greek name Nisia Voriou Egeou (Νησιά Βορείου Αιγαίου, literally "Islands of the Northern Aegean"), which is also mostly translated as "North Aegean Islands", often means the islands of the administrative region of the North Aegean, which are largely summarized in German as the East Aegean Islands .

The islands of Thasos and Samothrace off the northern Greek coast are sometimes also summarized under the term Thracian Islands . However, Thasos belongs to the historical region of Macedonia , while historical Thrace also includes the island of Gökçeada.

Thus belong to the North Aegean Islands in the narrower sense

  • in the region of Macedonia
    • Numerous small islands off the coast of the Chalkidiki peninsula , including Amouliani and the Drenia archipelago, as well as some islands on the territory of the monastic republic of Athos
    • Xeronisi
    • Thasos and surrounding smaller islands, including Thasopoula
  • in the region of Thrace
  • in the North Aegean region

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Bötig : North Aegean Islands. Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos, Skiros, Lesbos, Limnos, Samothraki, Thassos, Agios Efstratios. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-87531-453-0