Iran might find an Aegean island a handy way of foiling NATO's planned missile-defence shield.
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In Greece, for example, ten NGOs and a network of local activists dotted across the Aegean are resisting a controversial planning change that would make it easier to build holiday houses on the islands.
Now that Mr Simitis and Mr Yilmaz have met, the Aegean should be a bit less dangerous.
John Bennet, a professor of Aegean archaeology at Sheffield University, UK, commented that any new discovery of a channel should be viewed in a wider context.
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With all this tiring ruin-visiting, it is nice to always have a number of Aegean beaches nearby.
Yet without Evans, Mr MacGillivray and other Aegean archaeologists would have had a much more difficult task.
Randy: People see the oil platforms in the Aegean sea and assume that Greece produces a lot of oil and natural gas.
But Turkey, whose territorial disputes with Greece remain unresolved despite a warming of the mood in the Aegean, remains unconvinced.
By renting a car and mapping out a loose itinerary along the Mediterranean and Aegean it is nearly impossible to avoid stumbling upon ancient amphitheaters and temples, secluded turquoise-water coves and bustling resorts within minutes of one another.
The village of Olymbos looks precarious at best, perched high on a mountaintop above the plunging rocky shoreline of the Aegean Sea.
Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
As a result, think the Americans, tensions in the Aegean have risen and the Cyprus problem has become harder to solve.
Mr MacGillivray, a seasoned excavator who now digs at Palaikastro, site of a Minoan city in eastern Crete, used to teach Aegean archaeology at Columbia University in New York.
The Peloponnese, a large and beautiful peninsula connected to the mainland of Greece by a narrow isthmus at Corinth, draws fewer American travelers than the Aegean islands.
Among, say, people from either country who are studying outside their homeland (and have a better-than-average chance of becoming decision-makers), the share of trans-Aegean links would be far higher.
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