Greece is a country in Europe. It has no borders with any other country, but is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, west and south. Greece's capital city is Athens. The total land area of Greece is 131,000 square kilometers or 52,958 square miles. Out of this total area, 118,077 square kilometers or 46,842 square miles are land and 13%, 18,215 square kilometers or 6863 square miles are water.
Greeks named the islands in the Mediterranean
The named the 25th Island Of Greece in the Mediterranean after their nymphs (the daughter of a river god and a goddess). Homer in the Iliad makes the first recorded mention of an island under this name. He mentions several islands, such as Naxos, Ios and Tinos, but does not use the general word "Nisida" (island) to name them. In these works, the word "islands" is used in the same general meaning as it has today. The word "Nisida" was not commonly used to refer to an island until after the Roman Empire had ended.
In ancient Greece, every island was called an "island", as they were all surrounded by water. The names of islands founded in this era were taken from local mythology (usually a nymph, or nymphs) and allusions to classical culture. In later times, they became more descriptive.
Islands of Greece are divided
The islands of Greece are divided into two genetically different groups: the eastern islands and the western islands. The western or Aegean Islands form the "mainland" of Greece. The second group of islands are in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Major island groups located in this group include: Crete, Dikili, Lesvos, Samos, Chios and Rhodes.
According to the Greek government, there are about 7,000 islands in Greece. The largest islands include Crete (8,336 km2 or 3,216 sq mi), Euboea (1058 km2 or 403 sq mi), Rhodes (407 km2 or 154 sq mi), Cephalonia (376 km2 or 145 sq mi), Lesbos (368 km2 or 142 sq mi), Chios (344 km2 or 134 sq mi) and Corfu (302 km2 or 118 sq mi).
25th island of Greece
The Greek Islands are a time bomb ready to explode. As they’re sinking even further into the Aegean sea, they’re becoming uninhabitable. Some islands have been evacuated while others are still being populated (Lesvos and Samos). The islands that have been evacuated were built on a sand foundation, which is disappearing as the sea level rises.
Most of the existing small islands are located along the northern and eastern coasts of Crete. Other islands include Salamina, Antimilos and the Dia chain of islands. The small island of Gavdos, which is located south of Crete, is the southernmost point of mainland Europe.
In total there are 164 islands that have a permanent population. They are located close to the main city centers in Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki and Rhodes).
Although most Greek islands have only been inhabited since the late 19th century, there is evidence to suggest that they were inhabited much earlier than this.
The following is a list of Islands
A great deal of the Aegean Sea is covered with small islands, like sand banks. Most of them are uninhabited and appear only various times in history. The northern part of Crete has nothing but sand banks, so the population of Crete is concentrated in three or four large cities along its northern coast.
No one paid attention to these islands until the 19th century, except for the Venetians, who built numerous fortresses on them.
A list of the Aegean Islands:
A great number of islands are not occupied. Some were inhabited in antiquity and then sank. In some cases human intervention was involved in their sinking, such as during the period of Venetian occupation when a series of intentionally sunken shipwrecks were used to create a defensive barrier between Crete and the mainland coast. The largest of these shipwrecks was Suleiman's Tower (the main entrance to the port of Chalkis) which has a submerged peak that is now above the sea level.
The most important islands are:
There are several islands which have more than one name. For example, Sparta Plateau and Sparta are two uninhabited islands in Messenia. The Greek historian Demosthenes refers to them as "Sparta" and as "Sparta plateau", respectively.
The following is a List of the Islands by Region
The islands are classes into a few categories. For the islands with a permanent population, the following statistics are kept:
In total there are six inhabited Greek Islands proper and one uninhabited island: Folos (since 1998), Dia (since 1990), Nisyros, Samos and Chios (all since 1990). The uninhabited island of Gavdos is also inhabited but by no humans.
Most islands are located in the Aegean. There are three important islands in the Aegean Sea that are not in the group of islands that were inhabited by humans during ancient times:
The following is a list of the Greek Islands by population:
1 - Greek Islands
From time to time, multiple islands are joined together. Some joined through natural connection, like Rhodes and Salamis, or due to water sharing, like Kos and Leros. Some islands contain cities or villages. The following is a list of inhabited islands with their population and the year they were established. In brackets is the maximum population ever recorded on that island.
The group of islands in the Ionian Sea are, in general, small and lacking in fresh water. They are, however, important for fish production, both for their fertility and their position near the center of the Mediterranean Sea from where vessels sail to Italy, France and Spain. The islands in the Ionian Sea therefore serve as an import-export base for products from the rest of Greece.
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