Listed 11 sub titles with search on: Name of the location for wider area of: "SOUTH AEGEAN Region GREECE" .
SANTORINI (Island) KYKLADES
This name prevailed long afterwards from the Italian Santa Irini in
the Crusade period, due to the small chapel of Santa Irini, situated on the island
of Thirassia at the entrance
of the Caldera.
(Text: Manolis Lignos)
This text (extract) is cited February 2004 from the Municipality
of Thera tourist pamphlet (2003-2004).
DELOS (Island) KYKLADES
Delos received the name of Ortygia from Asteria, sister of Leto, who was changed into a quail (ortux) to escape from Zeus. She was then metamorphosed into the island afterwards called Delos
IOS (Island) KYKLADES
A small island in the Aegean Sea, otherwise called Ios
KYTHNOS (Island) KYKLADES
Serpent-island, a name of Cythnos
A poetical name of Paros
RHODES (Island) DODEKANISSOS
In earlier times Rhodes was called Ophiussa and Stadia, and then Telchinis, after the Telchines, who took up their abode in the island.
Althaemenes fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
SERIFOS (Island) KYKLADES
many-feeding, ferlile, as ironical epith. of the barren island of Seriphos
DODEKANISSOS (Island complex) GREECE
The name Dodecanese is a thoroughly modern term and was applied in 1908 when twelve privileged islands of the Eastern Aegean, excluding Rhodes, Kos and Lipsos, united to protest against the deprivation by Turkey of special privileges that they had enjoyed since the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent 1495 1566.
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