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3 unusual facts about Aegean sea


Deinomenes

The historian Herodotus writes that his ancestors came from the island of Telos in the Aegean Sea and were the founders of the city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Karkinagri

Karkinagri is a village near the southwestern tip of the Aegean island of Ikaria, Greece.

Minaeans

The extent of their long distance trade is also shown by the presence of Minaean merchants in the Aegean.


AirSea Lines

In 2007 AirSea Lines expanded its network into the Aegean from Attica, using the port of Lavrio (instead of the preferred location of Piraeus) citing insufficient infrastructure at Piraeus for seaplane operations.

Akçaabat

The first settlers of the town came from Aegean shores and named the town "Platana" because of the abundance of plane trees (Greek Plàtanos, Πλάτανος, Latin Platanus).

Antedon mediterranea

Antedon mediterranea is found in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and westward to the south coast of Spain and Cape St. Vincent.

Argalasti

Argalasti is a stopping point for those headed for the nearby beaches of the Pagasetic Gulf (Chorto, Kalamos, Lefokastro) or the Aegean Sea (Potistika, Melani, Paltsi).

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Caphtor

Jean Vercoutter in the 1950s had argued, based on an inscription of the tomb of Rekhmire that Keftiu could not be set apart from the "Islands of the Sea" which he identified as a reference to the Aegean Sea.

Christos G. Doumas

From 1960 up until 1980, he had a career in the Greek Archaeological Service as curator of antiquities in Attica (on the Athenian Acropolis), in the Cyclades, in the Dodecanese Islands, and in the northern Aegean islands.

Clio-Danae Othoneou

Winter 2007-2008 with the support of Ministry of Mercantile Marine, tours the islands of Aegean in the frames of 1st Festival Aegean Archipelagos, with the performance “TOTALARTE” with the work of Camille Saint-Saëns, Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals), in adaptation and artistic assiduity Yannis Georgiadis for piano and string quintet.

Episkepsis

As the historian Paul Magdalino shows, these episkepseis were overwhelmingly situated in the coastlands around the Aegean Sea, which comprised the Empire's best arable land, or in fertile inland areas such as Thrace and Thessaly.

Essex Regiment

At the conclusion of the First World War the Britain maintained a garrison at Constantinople to ensure free passage of the sea lanes between the Aegean and Black Seas.

Foca-class submarine

Atropo and Zoea, the second and third vessels of the class, were used after Italy's 1943 surrender by the Allies for supply runs to British garrisons in Samos and Leros in the Aegean.

House of the Virgin Mary

On October 18, 1881, relying on the descriptions in the book by Brentano based on his conversations with Emmerich, a French priest, the Abbé Julien Gouyet, discovered a small stone building on a mountain overlooking the Aegean Sea and the ruins of ancient Ephesus in Turkey.

Küçükmenderes River

The Cayster generally flows westward and arrive into the Aegean Sea at Pamucak beach near Selçuk, İzmir.

Muscat of Alexandria

It is also cultivated very heavily on the island of Samos, in the North Eastern Aegean region of Greece, and reputedly Cleopatra drank muscat wine from there.

No. 221 Squadron RAF

Initially engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the Aegean, it was sent to Russia in December 1918 to support White forces against the Bolsheviks.

Ot Pi

In 1994 Ot Pi appeared in another video entitled Full Cycle: A World Odyssey performing Trials in various locations in and around Athens, Greece, including the Plaka, National Garden of Athens, Acropolis, Parliamentary Building, Olympic Stadium, Christianity Rock and Sounion, known for its temple ruins by the Aegean Sea.

Philippus

3,000 years ago a select few of the Olympian gods, which included Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Demeter and Aphrodite, took the souls of women slain throughout time by the hands of men and sent them to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.

Sepiola rondeleti

Sepiola rondeleti, also known as the Dwarf Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, including the Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea.

Third Battle of Krithia

On the left of the line (western side) by the Aegean shore, the 29th Indian Brigade and the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers (from the 29th Division) would attack along Gully Spur and Gully Ravine.

Typaldos Lines

In 1966 the ferry SS Heraklion sank in the Aegean Sea and over 200 passengers and crew members perished.

Tyrsenian languages

Tyrsenian (Tyrsenisch, also Tyrrhenian), named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek: Tursānoi, Tursēnoi, Turrhēnoi), is an extinct family of closely related ancient languages proposed by Helmut Rix (1998), that consists of the Etruscan language of central Italy, the Raetic language of the Alps, and the Lemnian language of the Aegean Sea.


see also

Green sea urchin

Psammechinus microtuberculatus, occurs in the Atlantic Ocean, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean

Hans Hass

Until the end of the war Hass lived and worked in the Filmstudios of Universum Film AG in Babelsberg near Berlin to cut and finish his film about the expedition in the Aegean Sea.

Horst Weber

She later took part in the capture of the island of Leros (Dodecanese Islands, Aegean Sea) in the autumn of 1943 and was finally sunk on 10 January 1944 by allied bombing (one of her torpedoes exploded) at Korcŭla (Croatia) on the Adriatic Sea.

Mycenaean

Mycenaean Greece, the Greek-speaking regions of the Aegean Sea as of the Late Bronze Age

Psyra

Psara, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, referred to by Homer as Psyra

Vandalic War

The fleet left the Dardanelles on 1 July, and crossed the Aegean Sea to the port of Methone, where it was joined by the last contingents of troops.