Talk:Aegean Sea

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message: The greek name should go before the turkish name as it is more common and more significant. This is because the large proportion of the sea is found in Greece and the large majority of the islands in the sea belong to Greece. The Map is also acceptable and shouldn't be deleted as there is no delineation to indicate that the Aegean Sea is "only in Greece". The map clearly shows the Sea with respect to Greece and the article is prefectly clear that the sea is not only in Greece but found in between Greece and Asia Minor. Aggelophoros 22:18, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits by 81.214.49.176

message: Edit as at 03:09, February 27, 2006:
:The Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίον Πέλαγος, Aigaion Pelagos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) (Turkish: "Ege Denizi") is an archipelago of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greek peninsula and Anatolia (Asia Minor, now part of Turkey). It is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.
Is the Aegean Sea an archipelago, which is a landform, or a sea? --Sengkang 13:54, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right that archipelago isn't correctly used here. Perhaps the editor that made the change had an incomplete understanding of the English term. I've removed the part that calls the sea an archipelago. --NormanEinstein 16:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Archipelago or sea?

message: No, it obviously does not because Turkey has several islands in the Aegean, such as Imbros and Tenedos. —Khoikhoi 16:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed 'dialect word' to 'greek word'. saying just 'dialect' is confusing. btw, Turkey has just these two islands, not several... --Hectorian 16:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget about all the Turkish towns and cities on the coast...İzmir is perhaps one of the largest Aegean cities. —Khoikhoi 16:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course! In fact 2nd largest, after Athens. Look, i did not say that the turkish name does not belong where it currently is. i said that Turkey does not have 'several islands':). --Hectorian 16:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't we just include all the relevant foreign language names parenthetically at the beginning? Greek, Turkish, (and possibly) Italian. This is done in many articles. savidan(talk) (e@) 15:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the simplest way of course, but when it requires a bit more explanation (about etymology etc., like here) it's often treated better a bit further down so as to not take up too much valuable intro space. Also, placing "foreign" names in the lead sentence has tended to heaten up rather than neutralise those silly ideological debates about which languages are "relevant". Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the Turkish name belongs in history" 

message: Was doing some research and noted that AIGIS, according to The Perseus Digital Library, is Greek for "rushing storm". Demeter 01:59, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure about that, but seems right. 'καταιγίς, Gen. -ίδα' (kat(o)+aigis) is modern Greek for 'storm'. Hectorian 02:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Goat. But beware, the "etymologies" of antiquity are word-games. --Wetman 06:55, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: You land on this article when you go to the province, but there's no information about what parts of the archipelago constituted that province. There's no information about the Ottoman period at all, either here or there; something as basic as a map of the Ottoman velayats, showing their actual extent, would be very helpful. Were all of these islands and land forms part of it? How far inland did it go? 216.231.46.147 01:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aegean Archipelago Province of the Ottoman Empire 

message: hey it's ok to put the pronunciation audio of Agean Sea in Greek. right?
but i suck with codes..
that's what i managed to pull 
Αιγαίο Πέλαγος()
if i delete some link by mistake, fix it CuteHappyBrute (talk) 02:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Media

message: Should the article mention that the present coastline only dates back to about 4000 BC ?
At the peak of the last ice age (c. 16,000 BC) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.  The islands, including Melos with its obsidian production, were probably still connected to the mainland when they were first occupied, with the present coastal arrangement only appearing c. 7000 BC, and post-ice age sea levels still rising for another 3000 years after that.   
Is this worth a mention? Jheald (talk) 11:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Now added to the "History" section.  Jheald (talk) 15:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sea levels before 4000 BC 

message: Aegean sea has a very distinct colour. Thats why it is on the Greek flag. Could any one explain or add this information on the article that why it is so special blue colour??
Babban12 (talk) 21:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colour of Aegean Sea 

message: I re-added a reverted note on the spelling "Ægean Sea".  It is sourced, and I've seen that spelling used before, including in Alberta education curriculum.  There are also nearly  Google hits for this spelling.  Before someone removes it again, could they please explain what is wrong about including alternative, if less popular, spellings?  It seems to me this is the purpose of an encyclopaedia: to inform. Mnmazur (talk)
:I agree that an encyclopedia's function is to inform. This goes without saying. But we have to inform in compliance with the relevant policies and guidelines. Please see below for my reply. Thank you. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 23:51, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ægean Sea 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hi. The article only mention the Greek fishing fleet, but what about Turkey? Or other nations? Is Greece the only nation that runs commercial fishing in the Aegean Sea? RhinoMind (talk) 21:40, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the fishing industry 

message: I've come here after trying to find a reference to the maximum depth of the Sea of Crete. That article states the maximum depth as being 3,293m, which is similar to the 3,544 stated on this article. I've looked around the web trying to find a reference for the maximum depth, but I can't find one as such. That figure of 3,544m just gets mentioned over and over again, with no source. The location is usually stated as being "east of Crete", sometimes specifically as "east of Cape Sidero (Akra Sidheros)". I have been looking at a website called Sailingheaven.com  which provides detailed nautical maps, although I don't know if they're accurate. It seems that the deepest point on that map is 2,550m slightly south-west of the Divounia islets (Ouanianisia) , which is slightly north, north-west of Cape Sidero (definitely not east). I've also looked at a bathymetric map of the Aegean Sea on an academic article on ReasearchGate , but there isn't the precision there. What I can say is that I've yet to find any potential reference as being anything over 3,000m, so I've being to conclude that the depths on this article and Sea of Crete are incorrect. I'm not a sailor or anything like that, so I don't know really where to look or how to interpret bathymetric maps properly. Does anyone know if there is a good place to check maximum depths of seas? Seaweed (talk) 15:16, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I've finally found something pretty reliable. There is a website called EMODnet Digital Bathymetry (DTM) operated by the European Union. . The map itself can be access from that page or directly at . It provides a detailed bathymetry map of the seas around Europe. There are no contours marked as 3,000m anywhere in the Aegean, which means that the maximum depth currently stated on the article of 3,544m can't be correct. I've had a look around trying to find the point with the deepest point on the EMODnet map and it seems to be 2,639m about 7km north-west of Leftkos on the island of Karpathos. I think you can download the actual dataset, but there is a commerical licence for that. I've tried my best to click around to find the maximum depth, but it's quite possible I've got it wrong. However, I think the most important thing to say is that 3,544m just doesn't seem plausible at all. I haven't seen any maps showing contours over 3,000m, but I could be wrong. The precise coordinates on the EMODnet map are Latitude 35.645633793316904 Longitude 27.02226251732903. I've copied that precisesly from EMODnet and I don't know how to write that in degrees and seconds. I'm going to bold and change the maximum depth of the Aegean Sea from 3,544m to 2,639m based on this reference. (My original investigation was for the maximum depth of the Sea of Crete, but this location is not in the Sea of Crete.) Seaweed (talk) 14:59, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the maximum depth? 

message: No etymology is provided. Manfariel (talk) 18:48, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and etymology