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The largest Italian island is Sicily, south-west of the peninsula. As for Greece, its largest island Crete. It may help you to remember this to consider that a major war occurred in ancient Greek history between the Mycenaeans, inhabiting Greece, and the Minoans, the inhabitants of Crete

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