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nounan arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
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of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
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of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
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- rhodes a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes
- olympus a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high)
- icarus (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
- thrace an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey
- thessaloniki a port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea; second largest city of Greece
- philistine a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
- aegean of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
- aegean of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
- salonica a port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea; second largest city of Greece
- lesbos an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry