Sporades
Sporades ( Greek Σποράδες Sporádes ( f. Pl. )) Is the name of two groups of islands in the Aegean Sea . Since ancient times, the Greek islands that did not belong to the circle of islands around Delos ( Cyclades , from Greek κύκλος kyklos 'circle') have been referred to as the Sporades . The name literally means “the scattered” (from Greek σπειρειν speirein “scatter”). It is linguistically related to spore (Greek σπορά sporá "the scattered seed", "seed") and the adjective sporadic (Greek σποραδικός sporadikós "scattered").
The Aegean Sporades
Northern Sporades
The Northern Sporades , also Magnesian islands called, around 135 islands and rocks islands include the east of the Greek mainland in the Aegean Sea .
The main islands of the Northern Sporades are Skyros (Σκύρος), Skopelos (Σκόπελος), Skiathos (Σκιάθος) and Alonnisos (Αλόννησος). The latter three form the Sporades regional district of the Greek region of Thessaly .
Southern Sporades
The Southern Sporades comprise over 170 islands, 30 of which are inhabited, off the western Anatolian coast. A large part of these islands forms the Greek prefecture and archipelago Dodecanese , which was also historically a unit. The northernmost islands of the southern Sporades - Samos, Ikaria and Fourni - belong to the Samos prefecture . Some smaller islands are sovereignly part of Turkey , others are controversial between Greece and Turkey (e.g. Imia ).
The largest islands of the Southern Sporades are Samos (Σάμος), Ikaria (Ικαρία), Kos (Κως), Rhodes (Ρόδος) and Karpathos (Κάρπαθος).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spore and sporadically at Duden online