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The Aegean Sea, not only is the cradle of Western Europe civilization, but also is the symbol of romantic emotional appeal journey. Aegean coast very twists and turns and numerious harbors, there were about the size of 2500 islands, and the island star ROM chess cloth, most of the west bank belongs to a small part of Greece, belong to the east coast of the Turkey. The distance between the adjacent islands is very short, standing on an island, can put the opposite of island see clearly.

About the origin of the name of the Aegean sea, there are all kinds of explanation: from GuAiQin city; From a man named Aegean amazon queen, she died in the ocean; Theseus comes from the father, prince, he mistakenly Aegean Theseus died, jumping to heart herself into the sea. A possible etymology is Α ι gamma-irradiation, meaning the waves, so α ι γ ι α λ mean the choppy seas.
The Aegean sea of Crete is MiNuoSi civilization and the peloponnesian peninsula Mycenae the cradle of civilization. And after occurred in Athens and Sparta, as a representative of the city-state, Greek civilization, and subsequently to all become the Persian empire, the Roman empire, the Byzantine empire, the republic of Venice, nasser column Ottoman empire, the turks empire of the territorial sea. The Aegean sea is the birthplace of democracy, is also the eastern Mediterranean all kinds of civilization contact and communication places, and many islands are volcanic island, a marble and iron ore production.
Aegean islands can be divided into seven islands: Thracian sea islands, north east Aegean islands,, Paula mention islands, base carat ze, islands, kosala Nick islands (also called al godot-kosala Nick islands), Christopher dodd KaNiSi islands and Crete. Many of the Aegean island archipelago island or actually land the extension of mountains. A blue-water extends to the island, and another Obama by evey urban extends to the island’s island, and a moss from the peloponnesian peninsula Minoan Crete to Rhode Island, the article is the Aegean sea and the Mediterranean Sea will pursue a separate.