If you look to the East coast of Greece on a map you will see the Aegean Sea. This is where the majority of the Greek islands can be found. The Greek islands are broken down into clusters and six of these seven clusters can be found in the Aegean.
The Aegean is home to the famous islands of Santorini and Mykonos in the Cyclades. Because this sea surrounding Greece is so rich in beautiful island destinations it might be the perfect place to begin your exploration. Like many place names in Greece, their origin can be traced back to ancient times.
Many of which you can still visit today. He threw himself into the sea and drowned upon thinking that his son had died. The Ionian Sea is the sea surrounding Greece on the Western side of the country. This is where you will find a cluster of islands , aptly named the Ionian Islands. This sea in Greece is also home to the deepest part of the Mediterranean, called Calyspo Deep. Here the sea reaches a depth of 5, m.
The Ionian Islands also known as Eptanisa include seven main islands. These beautiful islands dot the Ionian Sea that surrounds western Greece. Here there is plenty of lush greenery, Italian influences, and fertile lands. To the east, between mountain spurs, lie the plains of Thessaly and to the southeast, Boeotia and Attica. The southern part of the mainland, located south of the Gulf of Corinth, is a large, irregularly shaped peninsula called the Peloponnese.
With an area of 21, square kilometers 8, square miles , it is connected to Attica by an isthmus that is only 6. Although mountainous, it has a narrow coastal plain around its entire periphery.
Greece is bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by the Mediterranean, and on the east by the Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean. The Corinth Canal cuts through the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese to the rest of the Greek mainland, linking the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf and making the Peloponnese technically an island.
Numerous other gulfs and straits separate Greece's islands and peninsulas in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian Seas. Greece's major island regions are the Ionian Islands, which hug the western coast from Albania to the Peloponnese; the Aegean Islands, scattered about the sea of the same name; and Crete, which separates the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.
Crete, the site of the first European civilization, is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth-largest Mediterranean island, with an area of 8, square kilometers 3, square miles. The coast of the Greek peninsula is mostly rocky, although there are some strips of lowland along the shore. The most distinctive formation along the coast of the Greek mainland is the Chalcidice Chalkidhiki Peninsula in northern Greece, from which three narrow, smaller peninsulas jut into the Aegean.
Farther to the east, the Thracian coastline is generally smooth and uniform. The coast of central Greece has deeply indented bays about halfway down its length on both the east and west and is also indented to the south. The coast of the Peloponnese has good harbors and includes some plains areas.
Lake Vistonis in western Thrace, although called a lake, is actually a lagoon. Another major lake is Lake Trichonida near the southern end of the Pindus Mountains. Greece has relatively few rivers. Those it does have are short, and none are commercially navigable.
With a total length of kilometers miles , the Evros is the country's longest river. It forms part of Greece's border with Bulgaria in the north as well as its border with Turkey in the east. The most extensive plains in Greece are found at the mouths of the Struma and Nestos Rivers in the northern part of the country and in Thessaly, whose lowlands constitute the country's most fertile farmland.
Attica is mountainous in the north but levels off to plains that extend from Athens to the end of the peninsula. Fertile lowlands are also found in the alluvial plains of the Peloponnese. Greece's terrain is generally rugged, with mountain ranges and their spurs running northwest to southeast through much of the mainland. Altogether, mountains cover four-fifths of Greece.
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