Sporades
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Etymology
"Sporades" means "those scattered" (compare with "sporadic").[2] From Classical Antiquity the name has referred to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades.
Geography
In modern geographical parlance, there are five different Sporades groups:
- Thessalian Sporades (Script error: No such module "Lang".) or Northern Sporades. Since c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1960, the term "Sporades" refers mainly to these islands:
- Saronic Islands or Western Sporades(Script error: No such module "Lang".): Salamis, Aigina, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, and the other islands of the Saronic Gulf and the Myrtoan Sea.
- Southern Sporades (Script error: No such module "Lang".), i.e. the Dodecanese, to which group Samos and Ikaria are sometimes appended.
- Eastern Sporades or Anatolic Sporades (Script error: No such module "Lang".), i.e. the islands of the eastern and northeastern Aegean, near the coast of Asia Minor: Samos, Ikaria, Lesbos, Chios, Tenedos, Psara, Oinousses and smaller island groups.
- Thracian Sporades (Script error: No such module "Lang".): Thasos, Samothrace, Imbros, Lemnos and Agios Efstratios.
The two latter groups together form the North Aegean islands.
Administration
As part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the Sporades Regional Unit (Script error: No such module "Lang".) was created out of part of the former Magnesia Prefecture, region of Thessaly. The regional unit is subdivided into 3 municipalities. These are:[3]
The island of Skyros and a few uninhabited islets in its area are part of the Euboea regional unit and the administrative region of Central Greece.
See also
Notes
References
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Sources
- "Skyros – Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpage: EB-Skyros.
External links
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- Sporades The Official website of the Greek National Tourism Organisation
- Skopelos island Travel Guide since 1999
- Alonnisos island Travel Guide
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