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Sporades

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Also known as Northern Sporades, Thessalian Sporades, Sporades Islands

The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades ().

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The Sporades are a group of 24 islands located in the Aegean Sea off Greece's east coast, of which only four—Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos, and Skyros—have permanent populations. They represent an important part of Greece's island geography and serve as a populated archipelago in the northeastern Aegean region.

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Key facts

Greece place.name
Sporades
Greece place.name_local
Περιφερειακή ενότηταΣποράδων
Greece place.type
regional unit
Greece place.image_skyline
2011 Dimi Sporadon numbered.svg
Greece place.caption_skyline
Municipalities of Sporades
Greece place.image_map
PE Sporadon.png
Greece place.map_caption
Sporades within Greece
Greece place.periph
Thessaly
Greece place.area
275.7
Greece place.population
13458
Greece place.population_as_of
2021

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Wikidata facts

Part of
Sporades
Has part
Skiathos
Country
Greece
Located in
Thessaly
Area
275.7
Time zone
UTC+03:00
Body of water
Aegean Sea
Image
Nördliche Sporaden topo.png
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Commons category
Sporades
topic's main category
Category:Islands of Sporades
inception
2011-00-00
native label
Σποράδες
located in/on physical feature
Aegean Islands
different from
Sporades
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
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  • Etymology
  • Geography
  • Administration
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades ().

==Etymology== "Sporades" means "those scattered" (compare with "sporadic"). From Classical Antiquity the name has referred to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sporades” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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