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Definition of Aegean sea
1. Noun. An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia.
Terms within: Aegean Island, Lemnos, Limnos
Group relationships: Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea
Generic synonyms: Sea
Derivative terms: Aegean
Definition of Aegean sea
1. Proper noun. A sea in the northeastern part of the Mediterranean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Aegean sea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"... to be drawn from Enos on the aegean sea to Midia on the Black Sea, Adrianople
excepted; agreed to an autonomous Albania to be delimited by the Powers; ..."
2. Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Including the Ionian Islands, Continental by John Murray (Firm) (1900)
"THE ARCHIPELAGO OK ISLANDS OF THE aegean sea. ... THE aegean sea, called by the
Italians the Archipelago (probably a corruption of ..."
3. The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill (1922)
"Turning to the aegean sea to follow inland the Aegean rivers, we discover that
the Balkan area which they drain is hardly less extensive than that tributary ..."
4. A Manual of Ancient Geography by Heinrich Kiepert, George Augustin Macmillan (1881)
"Greek Cities on the, aegean sea (within the narrower province of Thrace, and east
of the cities which sided with Macedonia).—Among Asiatico-Ionian colonies ..."
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