Aegina, Aigina - an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf

Chios, Khios - an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece

Kikladhes, Cyclades - a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean

Dhodhekanisos, Dodecanese - a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea

Lesbos, Lesvos, Mytilene - an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry

Rodhos, Rhodes - a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos

Aegean, Aegean Sea - 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

island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water