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Definition of Aegean

1. Noun. 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.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea. "Aegean islands"

Definition of Aegean

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it ¹

2. Adjective. Of, or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region ¹

3. Proper noun. The Aegean Sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aegean

Aeby's plane Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Aedes caballus Aedes leucocelaenus Aedes polynesiensis Aedes scapularis Aedes sollicitans Aedes variegatus Aegadean Islands

Aegadean Isles Aegadian Islands Aegates Aegates Isles Aegean (current term) Aegean Sea Aegean civilisation Aegean civilization Aegean culture Aegean island

Aegeans Aegen Aegenbald Aegenwulf Aegiceras Aegiceras majus Aegidius Aegilops triuncalis Aegina

Literary usage of Aegean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"EXPANSION OF THE GREEKS TO THE EASTERN Aegean The expansion of the Greeks over the Aegean islands and the plantation of Greek settlements along the western ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The series of Syran built graves, containing crouching corpses, is the best and most representative that is known in the Aegean, ..."

3. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"... Chapter V The Aegean Islands The Aegean islands ... In the northern Aegean, the islands Imbros, Lemnos, and, off the Magnesian coast, Skyros, ..."

4. The Story of World Progress by Willis Mason West (1922)
"CHAPTER VI Aegean CIVILIZATION, 3500-1200 BC At least as early as 3500 BC slim, short, ... Especially about the Aegean Sea with its clustering islands, ..."

5. The Story of Man's Early Progress by Willis Mason West (1920)
"Aegean culture 3500 BC A native culture PART II THE GREEKS Greece — that point ... CHAPTER VI Aegean CIVILIZATION, 3500—1200 BC We left Europe in the upper ..."

6. Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne by Willis Mason West (1902)
"A. FIRST PERIOD, READJUSTMENTS IN THE Aegean, TO 900 BC. ... The age was one of rearrangements and of moderate expansion inio the Aegean. 102. ..."

7. A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1905)
"NOT many years ago the only materials which existed for the reconstruction of the early history of the Aegean lands were the foundation-legends of the ..."

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