Archipelago
a term applied to such tracts of sea as are interspersed with many islands. It is more especially ranean lying between Asia Minor and applied to the numerous islands of the Ægean Sea, or that part of the Mediterdivided into two groups called the Cy- Greece. These islands are principally clades and Sporades. The former contains the islands of Kythnos, Lyra, Seince of the Cyclades. The Sporades riphos, Keos, Anoros, Tenos, Naxos, Thera, Ios, Melos, Kimolos, etc., all be- longing to Greece, and forming the prov- ince of the Cyclades. The Sporades group consists of Scio, Cos, Rhodes, Sagroup consists of Scio, Cos, Rhodes, Salonging to Greece, and forming the provmos, Mitylene, Lemnos, etc. distinguished