a
reference to a peninsula of land bordering the
Aegean Sea. Also known as the Archipelago, the Aegean lies between Greece and Turkey and contains many islands. Archipelagian means of the Archipelago. Archipelago literally means "
chief sea" and was used by the ancient Greeks for their
main sea, the Aegean. It has since come to be used in a more
general sense for any
broad expanse of water containing many islands or for the islands themselves.