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Example sentences for: aegean

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A race known as the Dorians came to power in southern Greece, forcing many mainland Greeks to leave their homeland and cross the Aegean to settle on the coast of Anatolia.
In the eastern Aegean, three of its larger islands mirror the western Turkish coastline.
In 1770, Russia came to aid the Greeks (defined by their Orthodox religion rather than by historical geographical boundaries), declaring war on the Ottoman Empire and occupying several Aegean islands until 1774.
By the time of the Crusades, many of the Aegean islands had been practically depopulated.
It was from here that the mighty Mycenaean empire grew to encompass mainland Greece and the northern Aegean islands.