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The Aegean Sea has been historically important, especially regarding the civilization of Ancient Greece, which inhabited the area around the coast of the Aegean and the Aegean islands. The Aegean islands facilitated contact between the people of the area and between Europe and Asia.
3 dni temu · Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek peninsula on the west and Asia Minor on the east. About 380 miles (612 km) long and 186 miles (299 km) wide, it has a total area of some 83,000 square miles (215,000 square km).
Ephesus was one of the leading trading cities in the Roman World. The city was located by the Aegean Sea and used to have a busy port in the Antiquity. Ephesus Port was known to be ''the Gate by Which the West Visited the East''.
The Aegean Sea is located between Greece and Turkey. Its name comes from the Greek roots " Αιγαίο Πέλαγος " and Turkish " Ege Denizi " . Its boundaries as well as its surface is a bit difficult to define, but it is considered to be bordered to the south by an arch located from west to east and passing through the islands of Cythera ...
Aegean civilizations, the Stone and Bronze Age civilizations that arose and flourished in the area of the Aegean Sea in the periods, respectively, about 7000–3000 bc and about 3000–1000 bc. The area consists of Crete , the Cyclades and some other islands, and the Greek mainland, including the Peloponnese , central Greece , and Thessaly.
28 kwi 2011 · The Aegean Sea lies between the coast of Greece and Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It contains over 2,000 islands which were settled by the ancient Greeks; the largest among them being Crete (Kriti) and the best known and most often photographed Santorini (Thera or Thira).
The sea is fundamental to our conception of ancient Greece: its thousands of miles of coastline and dozens of Aegean islands.
