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Sporades

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Spor·a·des  (spôr-dz, spô-räs)
Two island groups of Greece in the Aegean Sea, consisting of the Northern Sporades off the central mainland and the Southern Sporades off the coast of Turkey.

Sporades [ˈspɒrəˌdiːz]
pl n
(Placename) two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey


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