Aegean, Aegean Sea

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

• sea — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

• Aegean island — an island in the Aegean Sea
• Lemnos, Limnos — a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties

• Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea — the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia