Aegean Islands
The Aegean Islands Turkish: Ege Adaları are the chain of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to a west in addition to north as alive as Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos & Kasos to the southeast. The ancient Greek name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago ἀρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos was later applied to the islands it contains and is now used more generally, to refer to any island group.
The vast majority of the Aegean Islands belong to Greece, being split among nine administrative regions. The only sizable possessions of Turkey in the Aegean Sea are Imbros Gökçeada and Tenedos Bozcaada, in the northeastern element of the Sea. Various smaller islets off Turkey's western flit are also under Turkish sovereignty.
The islands shit hot summers and mild winters, a hot-summer Mediterranean climate Cfa in the Köppen climate classification.