North Aegean islands

The term North Aegean islands in German are usually the Greek islands of the northern Aegean Sea, ie the islands of the Greek regions of Macedonia, Thrace and located north of Lesbos North Aegean islands in the region combined. An archipelago in the real sense they do not form. In a broader sense, also added today the Turkish islands, and Bozcaada GOKCEADA. The North Aegean islands belong in a broader sense to the Greek Sporades. The Northern Sporades and the island of Lesbos are sometimes counted in the German travel literature on the North Aegean islands. Also is the name Northern Aegean Islands in use for the whole of the north- eastern Aegean islands and.

The Greek name Nisia Voriou Egeou ( Νησιά Βορείου Αιγαίου, literally " islands of the northern Aegean Sea " ), which also usually " North Aegean Islands " is translated, often refers to the islands of the Administrative Region of North Aegean, which are summarized in German for the most part as East Aegean Islands.

The islands of Thasos and Samothrace off the north coast of Greece are sometimes grouped together under the term Thracian islands. However, Thasos part of the historic region of Macedonia, while historic Thrace also includes the island GOKCEADA.

Thus, among the North Aegean islands in the strict sense

  • In the region of Macedonia Numerous small islands off the coast of Halkidiki, such Amouliani peninsula and the island group of Drenia as well as some islands in the territory of Mount Athos
  • Xeronisi
  • Thasos and surrounding smaller islands, including Thasopoula
  • Samothrace and Ladoxera
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