Aigean and Anatolian Settlements

The Sporades are "scattered islands" in the Aigian, formerly under Kretan control but increasingly Hellenic. Also, settlements have been established in Anatolia, an increasing source of friction with the Hittite Empire.

Cyclades

[Grc: Κυκλάδες]

An island group in the Aigean Sea, southeast of mainland Hellas. The name refers to the islands "around" (κυκλάς) the sacred island of Delos. The islands are peaks of a submerged mountainous terrain, with the exception of two volcanic islands, Milos and Santorini. The largest and most fertile island of the Cyclades is Naxos.
Delos and its surrounding islands were home to a thriving island civilization before the rise of Krete and its conquest of the islands early in the Fourth Age.
Agricultural products include emmer and wild-type barley, sheep and goats, pigs, olives and olive oil, and tuna speared from small boats.
Major Islands:

• Amorgos
• Anafi
• Andros
• Antiparos
• Delos
• Ios
• Kea
• Kimolos
• Kythnos
• Milos
• Mykonos
• Naxos
• Paros
• Folegandros
• Serifos
• Sifnos
• Sikinos
• Syros
• Tinos
• Thira or Santoríni

Minor Islands:

• Donousa
• Eschati
• Gyaros
• Irakleia
• Koufonisia
• Makronisos
• Rineia
• Schoinousa

Plus about 200 others, mostly uninhabited.

(Northern) Sporades

[Grc: (Βόρειες) Σποράδες]

An archipelago along the east coast of Hellas, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aigean Sea.

• Skopelos
• Alonnisos
• Skiathos
• Skyros
• Kyra Panagia
• Peristera
• Gioura
• Skantzoura
• Piperi
• Tsougria

Thracian Sporades

[Grc: Θρακικές Σποράδες]

• Thasosi
• Samothraki
• Imbrosi
• Lemnosi
• Agios Efstratios

Western Sporades

[Grc: Δυτικές Σποράδες]

• Salamis
• Aigina
• Poros
• Hydra
• Spetses
• Other islands of the Saronic Gulf and the Myrtoan Sea

Eastern Sporades

[Grc: Ανατολικές Σποράδες]

The islands of the eastern and northeastern Aigean, near the coast of Asia Minor:

• Samos
• Ikaria
• Lesbos
• Chios
• Tenedos
• Psara
• Oinousses
• Smaller island groups

Southern Sporades

[Grc: Νότιες Σποράδες]

The traditionally termed "Dodecanese" (twelve islands), which are actually 15 large islands and over a hundred smaller ones. The most important islands are Rhodes, Kos, and Patmos. Samos and Ikaria are close enough that they are sometimes included in this group.

• Rhodes
• Kos
• Patmos
• Agathonisi
• Astypalaia
• Chalki
• Kalymnos
• Karpathos
• Kasos
• Leipsoi
• Leros
• Nisyros
• Symi
• Tilos
• Kastellorizo
• Alimia
• Arkoi
• Chalki
• Farmakonisi
• Gyali
• Kinaros
• Levitha
• Marathos
• Nimos
• Pserimos
• Saria
• Strongyli
• Syrna
• Telendos

Location under

Hellas