AEGEAN SEA

Is thus named the marine region sport ween continental Greece in the DV, the islands Crete and Rhodes in the N and Turkey A. his length is 640 km, the width of the 320 km and surface 250.000 t. km 

His limits have been determined in 1919 from the International Ydrografjko' Congress of London. His beach they are lived by the 45% of residents of Greece. With the Ey'xejno Po'nto it communicates with the Dardane'llja, the Propontj'da and the Bosporus. 

Many are the big and small islands that are found in the Aegean Sea and him give this unique colour. The kyrjw'tera islander clusters are the Cyclades, the Dwdeka'nnisa and the V. Sporades. The saltiness of his waters varies, the tides is low, his coasts have rich djameljsmo' with very a lot of gulves which have taken their current form, the tetartogeni' period from the subsidences and elevations that suffered the region. The harbours many with more considerably Piraeus, Thessalonica and in the Turkish coast the Smy'rni. 

His his geographic place gave big commercial and strategic importance gj’ this a'llwste constituted field of competition and conflicts of big forces. The marks of important cultural progress began to present in the region the sixth millenium.

 In the fourth millenium and up to the 1100p.H. Aegean it reaches in the supreme acne kacw's are developed important cultures. Crete that with her fleet dominated in the Aegean and in the neighbouring seas and the Mycenaes, were the centres of culture. In the first historical years from the cities that are found in the Eastern coasts of Aegean, it began a big apojkjstjki' movement that expanded going the eminent culture of Greece up to Gibraltar.

 A lot of populations (the Pe'rses, ¢raves, the Normen, the Enetoj', the Turks, the German k.a'.) tried without success they conquer the Aegean and they dominate in this bridge that links Europe with Asia.

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