With all this tiring ruin-visiting, it is nice to always have a number of Aegean beaches nearby.
Separate rows between Greece and Turkey over tiny islets in the Aegean continue to fester.
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These houses command sweeping views of the Aegean and, on clear days, other Cycladic islands.
Iran might find an Aegean island a handy way of foiling NATO's planned missile-defence shield.
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Now that Mr Simitis and Mr Yilmaz have met, the Aegean should be a bit less dangerous.
NATO, to which both Greece and Turkey belong, should continue efforts to ease tensions in the Aegean.
Yet without Evans, Mr MacGillivray and other Aegean archaeologists would have had a much more difficult task.
Ephesus was actually on the Turkish shore of the Aegean Sea, which featured spectacular Roman engineering, especially plumbing.
He defines Asia broadly, as bordering with Europe at the Aegean Sea and Africa at the River Nile.
The scenario was based on an earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Aegean coastlines on 9 July, 1956.
Last month the two countries' diplomats met, for the first time, to discuss their long-running disputes in the Aegean.
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Greek and Turkish war games in the Aegean during the past few weeks have threatened to provoke another flare-up.
In the late 1990s, another company, Aquarius Water Trading and Transportation, towed water in bags in the Aegean Sea.
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Tension between Greece and Turkey has risen over the past year, in the Aegean as well as over Cyprus.
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The village of Olymbos looks precarious at best, perched high on a mountaintop above the plunging rocky shoreline of the Aegean Sea.
There is talk of mass privatisations of public property (although Mr Papandreou balks at selling off any Aegean islands).
But Turkey, whose territorial disputes with Greece remain unresolved despite a warming of the mood in the Aegean, remains unconvinced.
Mr Simitis wants to keep the Kurdish question separate from Greece's own disputes with Turkey over the Aegean Sea and Cyprus.
And as you stand with the windmills spinning behind you and the Aegean stretched out before you, you will know you are somewhere special.
As a result, think the Americans, tensions in the Aegean have risen and the Cyprus problem has become harder to solve.
Santorini remains uniquely stunning with its dramatic cliff top caldera and Aegean views, the views that draw honeymooners year after year.
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Thassos is in the northern Aegean Sea, near the coast of Thrace.
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But Mr Ecevit gave no ground in one bitter dispute over who owns some uninhabited islets and associated mineral rights in the Aegean.
Randy: People see the oil platforms in the Aegean sea and assume that Greece produces a lot of oil and natural gas.
Greece and Turkey themselves still bicker over rocky outcrops in the Aegean.
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But he's spending a lot of time in Turkey these days--150 in the last year--and he's not there just enjoying the Aegean coast.
Throughout the ensuing days we explore its southern beaches of Habbele, Ayazma and Ayana, splashing about in Aegean waves and watching crabs scuttle across empty sands.
Agamemnon (Brian Cox), the chief of the Greek expedition, uses the loss of Helen to the Trojans as an excuse to conquer the eastern Aegean.
Across the Aegean Sea, Greeks are turning out in Athens to show their anger at austerity measures that have sent the country's economy into a tailspin.
Designed and built by owners Nikos and Fotini, each has three storeys, with magnificent views of the Aegean Sea from the bedrooms on the upper floors.
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