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This is a list of car-free islands: islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories. This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it .
The island has an area of about 4.5 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) [2] There are no cars or roads on the island. In antiquity, the island was called Cicynethus (Ancient Greek: Κικύνηθος, romanized: Kikynethos). [3] [4] [5] Ancient Kikynethos formed as polis (city-state) of Magnesia, ancient Thessaly. [6]
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The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea (Ὑδρέα, derived from the Greek word for "water"), a reference to the natural springs on the island. [ 4 ] The municipality of Hydra consists of the islands Hydra (area 49.6 km 2 (19.2 sq mi)), Dokos (area 13.5 km 2 (5.2 sq mi)), and a few uninhabited islets, with a total area of 64.443 km 2 ...
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This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group.