Dictionary
Spor•a•des
Pronunciation: (spôr'u-dēz"; Gk. spô-rä'&thslash;es), [key]—
n.pl.
two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the one
(Northern Sporades) off the E coast of Greece; the other
(Southern Sporades), including the Dodecanese, off the SW coast of Asia Minor.
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