Dodecanese
Speech parts
1. Dodecanese - Noun
2. Dodecanese - Proper noun
Meaning
a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
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Examples
The Dodecanese Islands had been occupied by the British; the Luftwaffe committed 75 Stukas of StG 3 based in Megara (I.
Outside of Africa, Italy possessed a small concession in Tientsin in China (following the Boxer Rebellion ) and the Dodecanese Islands off the coast of Turkey.
Cyprus and the Dodecanese were not included in the Greco-Turkish population transfer of 1923 because they were under direct British and Italian control respectively.
The 1947 Treaty of Paris required Italy to hand over the Dodecanese islands to Greece.
The Ionian Islands were ceded by Britain in 1864, and the Dodecanese by Italy in 1947.
Recently the environment ministry approved a study throughout the islands of the Dodecanese on the commercial exploitation of sea cucumbers.