How To Use Aegean In A Sentence
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This winding path is yet again an otherworldly symbolism and is related to the reason why ancient inscriptions in Etruria and in the Aegean area were sometimes written in a boustrophedon or spiral pattern.
Archive 2009-03-01
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I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.
Archive 2010-03-01
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This mediaeval movement of expansion, which is commonly called the Crusades, but which made itself felt in Spain and Sicily and the Aegean as well as in the 'Holy Land', is a remarkable parallel to the propagation of Ancient Greek city-states round the same shores between about 750 and 600 B. C.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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Above all, it has a beautiful rocky purity, pebbly shores, the coldest, cleanest sea in the Aegean, old mountain pathways and simple beach tavernas.
Insiders' guide to Greece
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Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the district anciently called Aeolis, and also Mysia.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho.
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Beneath me is the deep blue abyss of the Aegean.
Times, Sunday Times
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The same root *sub- appears to be present as in Etruscan and Egyptian and we even may be seeing an Aegean derivational suffix *-na attached.
Archive 2010-07-01
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We have booked to go on a sailing holiday in the Aegean.
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He was familiar with most of the Greek poleis, Macedon, the satraps and cities along what is now the western Turkish coast, many of the isles in the Aegean, Persia and its holdings, Egypt, and many other Mediterranean cities.
Kings and Poets
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In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE.
A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
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Here, the replacement of word-medial -h- with a velar stop is what we'd expect of Aegean languages which bar this sound in these positions.
Translating Etruscan zuci
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Between the Cyclades and Asia Minor lie the Sporades, which islands, as the name implies, are sown irregularly over that portion of the Aegean.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Yet the Pozitif photo gallery in Galata is currently hosting a show of stark images from Imroz, a Turkish Aegean island with a tiny, and dying, Greek population.
Turkish Delight
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The ISS was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time.
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War
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For your cruise segment, there are tons of options for a gulet (wooden boat) trip along the Aegean or Mediterranean coasts -- I'd choose the latter (how can you resist something called the Turquoise Coast?)
Insta Q&A: Turquoise Coast Is a Turkish Delight
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The overall flavour is Ionic, the dialect spoken on Euboea, other islands of the eastern Aegean such as Chios, and on the mainland of Asia Minor opposite them.
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One of the problems of such a site, however magnificent its prospects, is the Meltemi, the prevailing north-east summer wind of the Aegean.
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Then I called for takeout from the tiny Greek place up the street, a blue-and-white stucco box called Mykonos whose Salvadoran short-order cooks served up the garlickiest spanakopita, dolmades, and tsatziki this side of the Aegean.
Sugar Skull
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Cos in the Aegean Sea, which is also known as the upright, or smooth-leaved lettuce.
The Art of Living in Australia
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Spyros Latsis started his career as a humble fisherman in the Aegean.
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---- Of this there are two varieties, the ordinary cabbage lettuce and the cos, so named from the Island of Cos in the Aegean Sea, which is also known as the upright, or smooth-leaved lettuce.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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In true Aegean style, the friendly staff line up a dozen meze dishes from fava bean purée topped with red onions to smoky roasted aubergine.
Times, Sunday Times
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For your cruise segment, there are tons of options for a gulet (wooden boat) trip along the Aegean or Mediterranean coasts -- I'd choose the latter (how can you resist something called the Turquoise Coast?).
Insta Q&A: Turquoise Coast Is a Turkish Delight
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The empire's satrapies stretched from the Indus to the Aegean, and delicate reliefs on the walls of the Apadana Palace depict Libyans, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Turks and others bearing tributes to Darius.
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Our partners at the Aegean Pearl prepared an extraordinary celebration -- with beautiful decorations (including a vast array of blue and white balloons and flowers), tables full of traditional Greek and Cretan mezes (appetizers), newly-invented drinks (blue ouzo and raki, special blue water), and above all, a special cake.
Alex Pattakos: 'Opa! Day' Celebrating All Things Greek!
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An island group of southeast Greece Aegean Sea between Turkey and Crete.
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I do think the languages are related, but not in an exclusive "Altaic" grouping without Uralic, Indo-European, and your Aegean family.
How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese
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Note 28: Note that at the time of publication, less than one-third of the Greek-speaking population lived within the borders of the new Greek state, which was then comprised of the Peloponnese, Roumeli, Attica, Evvoia, and the islands of the Western Aegean (Cyclades and Sporades).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The Cyclades is a group of islands in the South Aegean Sea which forms a department of which country?
August 2007
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On the island of Ikaria in the eastern Aegean Sea, a low-angle extensional ductile shear zone and two associated brittle detachment faults are well exposed.
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The symposium was a clubby bastion of the aristocratic male citizenry, but as Ewen Bowie writes in The Oxford History of the Classical World, "melic poetry was at home everywhere," and there is evidence to suggest that rounds of lyric poetry became a standard form of entertainment at after-dinner soirees all across the Aegean archipelago.
Poetry Pages - 98.06.10
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And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War
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Aquitania" would make the most desirable capture, and our most dangerous spot is the Aegean, from behind any of whose numerous islands a submarine lying in wait may dart out.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
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Victorious in the Aegean Islands, the Turkish war machine turned its attention to the Greek mainland, assaulting the Peloponnese.
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In spite of submarine scares the voyage up the Aegean Sea was a pleasant one.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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Achilles was sent by his mother Thetis to the island of Scyros in the Aegean sea
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Turkish Straits connect the Black and Aegean Seas and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.
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Roast loin of Cumbrian pork with crisp crackling carved over a salad of vine tomatoes, Aegean olives, feta cheese and olive oil.
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After his idea to open the "Aegean" * Question after the relavant chapter of the history has been closed for 60 years, in a naive manner, by issuing resolutions and Spam-like correspondence, this new actions comes just few months before the local and Presidential election in Mr. Gruevski's despotate.
American Chronicle
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I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse.
The Trojan Women
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He also co-manages AegeaNet, the e-mail discussion list for preclassical Greece.
Multimedia: Hoppin' Hittites, Hector!
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The band imprinted my vacation with incongruities: the clear blue beauty of the Aegean sea and the fuzz-fest mayhem of "Territorial Pissings", a hot shimmering Mediterranean sun infected with the chilling strains of "Polly".
In search of Nirvana
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The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye.
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Still, if you want to talk about our undeciphered scripts, AegeaNet is the right place to be.
An Ancient Egyptian boardgame to appease readers
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A product unique in the world, as it is grown exclusively on the Aegean island of Chios.
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Known for his wizardly approach to seafood, Mr. Lazarou is one of the first chefs to use less expensive fish like the lanky monkfish and the long, ungainly garfish to make a wealth of gourmet dishes such as monkfish with mastiha liquor cream from the Aegean island of Hios and braised garfish with fava bean mousse.
Not Your Typical Greek Salad
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Your July cover caption reflects that the Star Flyer is ‘gliding peacefully through the Aegean Sea’ when she actually rests at anchor, tied between two mooring buoys.
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This is a far cry from a more leisured age when elegant vessels with teak decks with highly polished brass pottered about the Mediterranean making unhurried stops at little Aegean ports.
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Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus.
Archive 2010-06-01
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The ecoregion does not include the upland vegetation of the Rhodope Mountains (Rhodope montane mixed forests ecoregion) or the sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and meso - to thermo-Mediterranean pine forests to the south of the Rhodopes (part of the Aegean & West Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forest ecoregion).
Balkan mixed forests
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Spices - cumin, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves - are used sparingly but more prominently in the south of the Aegean, where Arab influence has left its mark, particularly in Crete and the Dodecanese.
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Asia Minor, or Anatolia, is a peninsula stretching westward from the Armenian mountains to the Aegean Sea, with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.
7. Asia Minor, c. 3000-333 B.C.E
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An island of northeast Greece Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey northwest of Lesbos.
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He then sailed across the Aegean, replacing pro-Athenian democracies on the allied islands with oligarchies of Ten (decarchies) under a Spartan overseer (harmost).
3. The Decelean (Or Ionian) War
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The same fate befell Scyros, an island in the Aegean inhabited by Dolopes; this they colonised themselves.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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If Etruscan were continuously in contact with the Aegean islands through the 1st millenium BCE, then Lemnian could be an out-of-Italy dialect of Old Etruscan as is usually claimed afterall.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
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Paleoglot: Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
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The peoples of the Cyclades and Crete were seagoing folk, and their first trading voyages to the islands of the Aegean seem to have been for obsidian.
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Athens is often called the queen of the Aegean.
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Spent two days in Istanbul, took a 10 hour bus ride to the 3rd biggest city in Turkey, Izmir, which is on the Aegean coast.
10-31-07 Mustache Politics
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by 800 BC the entire Aegean had adopted this style of pottery
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The ecoregion does not include the upland vegetation of the Rhodope Mountains (Rhodope montane mixed forests ecoregion) or the sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and meso - to thermo-Mediterranean pine forests to the south of the Rhodopes (part of the Aegean & West Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forest ecoregion).
Balkan mixed forests
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A striking characteristic of the Hellenides in the Aegean is the southward propagation of nappe emplacement and high - pressure metamorphism.
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Arnold C. Brackman writes in The Dream of Troy: ‘[Schliemann] discovered a Lost world, a pre-classical civilization in the Aegean, which was never thought to have existed.’
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I think it is possible to theorise the existence of such a particle purely on the basis of Etruscan words so we do not even need the evidence from other Aegean languages.
Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
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When he had been selling used cars, Hank had been skippering a billionaire's yacht across the Aegean.
FINAL RESORT
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After an early education in geometry and astronomy in his native Pitanê (in Aeolis, the northwest Aegean coast of modern Turkey),
Arcesilaus
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The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene.
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In the last third of the seventh century, when Byzantium definitively lost its African possessions, ceramics and amphorae from the Aegean and from the east become predominant.
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It is part of a small group of Aegean islands that took the name Cyclades, from the Greek "cyclos" (circle) because the islands form a circle around Delos, observed as the jewel in the crown of the archipelago.
American Chronicle
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The empire's satrapies stretched from the Indus to the Aegean, and delicate reliefs on the walls of the Apadana Palace depict Libyans, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Turks and others bearing tributes to Darius.
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The Aegean Sea is a popular route for illegal immigrants trying to access the European Union.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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An island of Turkey in the northeast Aegean Sea south of the Dardanelles. According to tradition, it was the site of a Greek naval station during the Trojan War.
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Dramatic views of the southern Aegean Sea are guaranteed to make eyes pop and jaws drop.
Times, Sunday Times
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All five appeared before a court in Izmir, on Turkey's Aegean coast Friday.
Turkey Arraigns al Qaeda Suspect
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The Scire made her way by a devious route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews.
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The coly-mackerel as a rule does not enter the Euxine, but passes the summer in the Propontis, where it spawns, and winters in the Aegean.
The History of Animals
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The primary slave market in ancient Greece was on an island in the Aegean sea known as "Delos".
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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It is located among the Sporades group of islands in The Aegean Sea near the west coast of Turkey.
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Aegean islands
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In true Aegean style, the friendly staff line up a dozen meze dishes from fava bean purée topped with red onions to smoky roasted aubergine.
Times, Sunday Times