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Aegean Sea

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The Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits link the Aegean Sea to the Marmara Sea, which then connects to the Black Sea.[1][2]

Geography and history

Its floor consists mainly of limestone, often altered by volcanic activity, with richly colored sediments near Santorini and Milos.[1] The current coastline formed about 9,000 years ago after sea levels rose 130 meters from the last ice age.[3] The Minoan civilization flourished on Crete from around 3000 to 1450 BC, representing the first advanced civilization in Europe.[4] The Battle of Salamis in 480 BC saw the Athenian fleet defeat the Persian fleet in the Aegean.[5]

During the 820s, Crete became an independent Islamic state under Andalusian exiles, later returning to Byzantine rule in 960-961.[6][7] The Bulgarian Empire under Simeon I conquered much of the northern and western Aegean coasts.[8] Since the 1970s, the Aegean dispute has significantly influenced relations between Greece and Turkey.[9][2]

What the cited sources add

The Indian Council of World Affairs report notes that a 2018 discovery revealed oil reserves of 3.5 trillion cubic meters in the Eastern Mediterranean region.[2] According to the same source, under the current 6-mile territorial limit, Greek waters comprise about 43.5 percent of the Aegean Sea.[2] The report states that extending territorial waters to 12 nautical miles would place around 71.5 percent of the Aegean under Greek sovereignty.[2] The Touropia account describes Limnos as a mix of beaches, volcanic rocks, and sparkling lakes in the north Aegean.[10]

The MPAtlas database indicates that more than 300 Aegean islands and islets are included in the Natura 2000 network.[11] Varro's "On the Latin Language" explains that the Aegean is named from the islands, because craggy islands in open water are called "aeges" (goats) from their likeness to she-goats.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Aegean Sea Mediterranean Sea", Encyclopedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "The Greco -Turkish dispute over the Aegean Sea", Indian Council of World Affairs (Government of India). facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Coastlines of Greece and the Aegean", Journal of Field Archaeology, Winter 1982, p. 445–454 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chaniotis, "Ancient Crete – Classics", Oxford Bibliographies (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Herodotus, "Histories. Book VIII", Cambridge University Press, 2007 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Makrypoulias, "Byzantine Expeditions against the Emirate of Crete c.825-949", Graeco-Arabica, 2000-01-01 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Norwich, "Byzantium. 2: The apogee", Knopf, 1993, p. 175–178 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Findlay, "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium", Princeton University Press, 2009-08-10, p. 14 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Aegean Sea" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Greco -Turkish dispute over the Aegean Sea", Indian Council of World Affairs (Government of India) (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Coughlin, "10 Largest Islands in Greece", Touropia. facts only, no text reused. touropia.com
  11. "MPAtlas » Greece", www.mpatlas.org. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
  12. Varro, On the Latin Language, 7.22. facts only, no text reused. topostext.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Aegean Sea (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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