Sporades
geographical name
Spor·a·des
ˈspȯr-ə-ˌdēz 
ˈspär-
two island groups of Greece in the Aegean Sea: the
Northern Sporades (chief island Skyros, north of Euboea and east of Thessaly)
and the
Southern Sporades (chiefly Samos, Ikaria, and the Dodecanese, off southwestern Turkey)
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