Sporades
geographical name
Spor·a·des
| \ ˈspȯr-ə-ˌdēz
, ˈspär-\
, ˈspär-\
Definition of Sporades
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)