Aegadian Islands

alternative Aegadean Islands

1. alternativenameAlternative name for the Egadi Islands.

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   In the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas lie several archipelagos of small Italian islands, some measuring only a few hundred meters across: the Pontine Islands, southwest of Rome; the Aeolian Islands, north of Messina; the Aegadian Islands, west of Sicily; the Pelagie archipelago, some two hundred miles south of Sicily, closer to the shores of Tunisia; and, finally, the Tremiti Islands, off the coast of northern Puglia in the Adriatic.

   2011, Michael R. Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy, →ISBN, page 1