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  2. Fortunate Isles - Wikipedia

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    Greek underworld. The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed[1][2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology. In the time of Hesiod, the ...

  3. Sporades - Wikipedia

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    Sporades. The (Northern) Sporades [a] are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, [2] in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. [2] They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades (Θεσσαλικές ...

  4. Naxos - Wikipedia

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    Naxos. Naxos (/ ˈnæksɒs, - soʊs /; Greek: Νάξος, pronounced [ˈnaksos]) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of the archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best abrasives available.

  5. Greece island hopping: A guide to the best routes and ... - AOL

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    With 227 inhabited islands in total and six main island regions, Greece offers almost too much choice. Lucy Thackray lays out some of the best routes to help you plan your next island-hopping ...

  6. List of islands of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Regions of the Greek islands. Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the ...

  7. Skopelos - Wikipedia

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    Skopelos. Skopelos (Greek: Σκόπελος, romanized: Skópelos, [ˈskopelos]) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island of Euboea. It is part of the Thessaly region.

  8. Kythnos - Wikipedia

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    Kythnos (Greek: Κύθνος, pronounced [ˈkiθnos]), commonly called Thermia (Greek: Θερμιά), is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is 56 nautical miles (104 km) from the Athenian harbor of Piraeus. The municipality Kythnos is 100.187 km 2 (38.68 sq mi) [2] in area and has a coastline of ...

  9. List of World Heritage Sites in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The next two sites listed were the Archeological site of Delphi and the Acropolis of Athens, in the following year. Five sites were added in 1988, two in 1989 and 1990 each, one in 1992, one in 1996, two in 1999, and one in 2007. The most recent site added was the Zagori Cultural Landscape, in 2023. There are no transnational sites in Greece.

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