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/ɪˈdʒiən/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization
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of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea
Aegean islands
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
How To Use Aegean In A Sentence
- The Aegean Sea is a popular route for illegal immigrants trying to access the European Union. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- Spent two days in Istanbul, took a 10 hour bus ride to the 3rd biggest city in Turkey, Izmir, which is on the Aegean coast. 10-31-07 Mustache Politics
- Athens is often called the queen of the Aegean.
- The peoples of the Cyclades and Crete were seagoing folk, and their first trading voyages to the islands of the Aegean seem to have been for obsidian.
- Paleoglot: Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/ Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
- If Etruscan were continuously in contact with the Aegean islands through the 1st millenium BCE, then Lemnian could be an out-of-Italy dialect of Old Etruscan as is usually claimed afterall. A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
- The same fate befell Scyros, an island in the Aegean inhabited by Dolopes; this they colonised themselves. The History of the Peloponnesian War
- He then sailed across the Aegean, replacing pro-Athenian democracies on the allied islands with oligarchies of Ten (decarchies) under a Spartan overseer (harmost). 3. The Decelean (Or Ionian) War
- An island of northeast Greece Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey northwest of Lesbos.
- Asia Minor, or Anatolia, is a peninsula stretching westward from the Armenian mountains to the Aegean Sea, with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south. 7. Asia Minor, c. 3000-333 B.C.E
