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Aegean Sea   /ɪdʒˈiən si/   Listen
Aegean Sea

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Aegean.






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"Aegean Sea" Quotes from Famous Books



... any faster than that which is now going on in Greenland and Scandinavia, and which has left their inhabitants undisturbed. Even more remarkable changes were effected, towards the end of, or since, the glacial epoch, over the region now occupied by the Levantine Mediterranean and the AEgean Sea. The eastern coast region of Asia Minor, the western of Greece, and many of the intermediate islands, exhibit thick masses of stratified deposits of later tertiary age and of purely lacustrine characters; and it is remarkable that, on the south side of ...
— Hasisadra's Adventure - Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley



Words linked to "Aegean Sea" :   Mediterranean Sea, sea, Lemnos, Aegean island, Limnos, Mediterranean



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