aegean has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia

Synonyms

Aegean_Sea

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

From even a cursory inspection of its many aspects , however , the historian can deduce several fundamental conclusions about the progress of the Aegean world down to 800 B.C.

The focus of novelty in this world now lay_in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland , and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean , always excepting its northern shores , had accepted the Geometric style of pottery .

By 800 B.C. the Aegean was an area of common tongue and of common culture .

The pace could now be accelerated , for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood_on_firm_ground .

Since writing was practiced in the Aegean before the end of the century , we may hope that the details of tradition will now be occasionally useful .

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[ adjective ] of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

In this process the Minoan Mycenaean inheritance had been transmuted or finally rejected ; the Aegean world which had existed before 1000 differed from that which rises more clearly in our vision after 800 .

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium .

These are the centuries in which the inhabitants of the Aegean world settled firmly into their minds and into their institutions the foundations of the Hellenic outlook , independent of outside forces .

The first slanting rays of the new day cannot yet dispel all the dark shadows which lie across the Aegean world ; but our evidence grows considerably in variety and shows more unmistakably some of the lines of change .

The antecedents of Dipylon vases and of the Iliad lie_in the Aegean past .

Related terms

Aegean_civilization

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[ adjective ] of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea

Examples

"Aegean islands"

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