Greek islands
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The islands are the most important distinctive of Greece country’s civilization, culture and tradition. Greek superior ground includes 6,000 islands and islets spreaded in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, of which only 227 islands are populated. This is a truthfully exclusive happening for the European continent.
Most of the islands are found in the Aegean Sea and are separated into seven groups (from north to south):
1) The Northeastern Aegean Islands: Agios Efstratios, Thasos, Ikaria, Lesbos, Limnos, Inouses, Samos, Samothrace, Chios, Psara.
2) The Sporades Alonissos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros
3) Evia
4) Islands of Argosaronic: Angistri, Aegena, Methana, Poros, Salamina, Spetses, Hydra.
5) The Cyclades A group of 56 islands; Amorgos, Anafi, Andros, Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Serifos, Sikinos, Sifnos, Syros, Tinos, Folegandros, Irakleia, Koufonisia and Schinousa.
6) The DodecaneseAstypalaia, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kasos, Kastelorizo, Kos, Lipsi, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos, Rhodes, Symi, Tilos, Chalki.
7) Crete
The Ionian Sea has only one island complex;
•The Ionian Islands Zakynthos, Ithaca, Corfu, Kefallonia, Lefkada, Paxi, and Kythira which is situated opposite the southern Peloponnese (Lakonia), the biggest islands in Ionian Sea,constitute the Eptanissa. Antipaxi, Ereikoussa, Kalamos, Kastos, Mathraki, Meganissi, Othoni, Skorpios, Strofades are smaller islands in Ionian Sea.
