Sporades
Template:For Template:Infobox Greece place The (Northern) SporadesTemplate:Efn are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea,<ref name=EBskyr>"Skyros - Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpage: EB-Skyros notes "including Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, and Alonnisos."</ref> in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros.<ref name=EBskyr/> They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).
Etymology
"Sporades" means "those scattered" (compare with "sporadic").<ref>Pomponius Mela, Chorographia, 2.111</ref> From Classical Antiquity the name has referred to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades.
Geography
In modern geographical parlance, there are five different Sporades groups:
- Thessalian Sporades ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) or Northern Sporades. Since Template:Circa 1960, the term "Sporades" refers mainly to these islands:
- Saronic Islands or Western Sporades({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}): Salamis, Aigina, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, and the other islands of the Saronic Gulf and the Myrtoan Sea.
- Southern Sporades ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), i.e. the Dodecanese, to which group Samos and Ikaria are sometimes appended.
- Eastern Sporades or Anatolic Sporades ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), i.e. the islands of the eastern and northeastern Aegean, near the coast of Asia Minor: Samos, Ikaria, Lesbos, Chios, Tenedos, Psara, Oinousses and smaller island groups.
- Thracian Sporades ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}): Thasos, Samothrace, Imbros, Lemnos and Agios Efstratios.
The two latter groups together form the North Aegean islands.
Administration
As part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the Sporades Regional Unit ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was created out of part of the former Magnesia Prefecture, region of Thessaly. The regional unit is subdivided into 3 municipalities. These are:<ref name=Kallikratis>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The island of Skyros and a few uninhabited islets in its area are part of the Euboea regional unit and the administrative region of Central Greece.
See also
Notes
References
Sources
- "Skyros – Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpage: EB-Skyros.
External links
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- Skiathos Villas Template:In lang
- Sporades The Official website of the Greek National Tourism Organisation
- Skopelos island Travel Guide since 1999
- Alonnisos island Travel Guide
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