There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland.

The Cyclades are part of a metamorphic complex that is known as the Cycladic Massif.

* c. 2500 BC – 2200 BC — Two figures of women, from the Cyclades, are made.

These victories are marred by the loss of the Cyclades to Antigonus II Gonatas in the Battle of Andros.

In the neolithic period, some of the early influences upon the development of Cretan culture arise from the Cyclades and from Egypt ; cultural records are written in the undeciphered script known as " Linear A ".

From the inscription of Adule, it is understood that the Cyclades, which are presumed to include Paros, were subjected to the Ptolemies, the Hellenistic dynasty ( 305-30 BC ) that ruled Egypt.

Crete, and especially the islands of the Cyclades, are characterized by their attraction to the vases known as “ plastic ”, i. e. those whose paunch or collar is moulded in the shape of head of an animal or a man.

There are also infrequent sailings to other islands in the Cyclades.

Thus Middle Minoan objects might be found in the Cyclades, but they are not on that account Middle Cycladic.

In contrast, the remains of the Early Bronze Age on the island align it with the culture that developed in the Cyclades and Sporades to the south in the Aegean.

Andros, or Andro () is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos.

These consisted of the Greek mainland south of a line from Arta to Volos plus Euboea and the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea.

The Sea of Crete (, Kritiko Pelagos ) is the sea south of the Aegean Sea, north of the island Crete, and south of the Cyclades.

Serifos (,, also Seriphos ; formerly Serpho or Serphanto ) is a Greek island municipality in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos.

Together with Scerdilaidas, he sailed south of Lissus and broke the Roman treaty, attacking Roman allies in the Adriatic and by devastating and plundering many cities in the Cyclades and the Peloponnese.

On 22 March 1829, a conference of ambassadors of the three protecting powers ( Britain, France and Russia ) established the borders of Greece, which was to encompass all lands south of the line running from the Ambracian Gulf to the Pagasetic Gulf, including Negroponte ( Euboea ) and the Cyclades but not Crete.

From there, the Pelasgians dispersed to Crete, the Cyclades, Histaeotis, Boeotia, Phocis, Euboea, the coast along the Hellespont and the islands, especially Lesbos, which had been colonized by Macar son of Crinacus.

Hopes The island of the Lion is " The island of Kea in the Cyclades Tzia, Athens, Greece "; Tzia or Kea Κέα ( Greek ) island known as " the island of the lion " or The Meaning of Singapore is " the island of the lion or the city of lion and Singapore is " The spotless / clean land of the lion one which is surrounded by a excellent / supreme ocean ( Hindumahaasaagar or Indian Ocean ) at the other side of this ocean.

One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide.

Intending to secure revenue in the Cyclades, Minos of Knossos established a navy with which he established his first colonies by taking control of the Hellenic sea and ruling over the Cyclades islands.

In a more broad sense, it could be used to describe all speakers of the Ionic dialect, which also included the populations of Euboea, the Cyclades and many colonies founded by Ionian colonists.

He also tempted Artaphernes by adding that capturing the island would place other poleis of the Cyclades under his control, which would serve as a base for attacking Euboea.

It appears the Cyclades might then have been ruled from Rhodes by a former Byzantine civil servant Leo Gabalas self-styled " Caesar " and " Lord of Rhodes and the Cyclades ".

It might then be necessary to suggest a later date for the conquest of the Cyclades by the Venetians.

The Duchy of the Archipelago (, ) or also Duchy of Naxos (, ) or Duchy of the Aegean (, ) was a maritime state created by Venetian interests in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, centered on the islands of Naxos and Paros.

Lerna V is continuous with the preceding phase, distinguished largely by new styles in pottery with the sudden, peaceful introduction of matte-painted ware, the thick-slipped Argive version of gray Minyan ware, and a vigorous increase in the kinds of imported wares, coming from the Cyclades and Crete ( Middle Minoan IA ).

The Venetian episode came to an end in 1537, when Antiparos and the rest of the Cyclades fell to the Ottomans, and it remained under Ottoman rule until the War of Independence in 1821, apart from a period of four years from 1770 – 1774 when it was ruled by the Russians, who removed many of the magnificent stalactites from the cave to the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

* The Cyclades, by J Theodore Bent, Published 1885, reprinted by Archaeopress, 2002.

It is the island of the Cyclades complex that is closest to Attica ( about 1 hour by ferry from Lavrio ) and is also 20 km from Cape Sounio as well as 60 km SE of Athens.

Sifnos (; the spelling Siphnos is obsolete in English but still by convention often used to refer to the island in ancient times ) is an island municipality in the Cyclades island group in Greece.

The Cibyrrhaeots were complemented by two independent naval commands in the Aegean, each headed by a droungarios: the Aigaio Pelagos (" Aegean Sea "), covering the northern half of the Aegean and the Dardanelles and Marmara Sea, and the command variously known as the Dodekanesos (" Twelve Islands ") and Kolpos (" Gulf "), which was based at Samos and comprised the southern Aegean including the Cyclades.

( The sculptures on view at the museum were clearly created by artists from Tinos in the Cyclades as can be seen on the base of Polifemo's blinding ).

The Cyclades (;, ) is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece ; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

The latter's territory, however, was restricted to just those regions from which Ottoman forces had been expelled, namely the Peloponnese, the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea and central Greece.

Ios (, locally Νιός-Nios ) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea.

Folegandros (, also Pholegandros ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea which, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades.

Cycladic civilization ( also known as Cycladic culture or The Cycladic period ) is an Early Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades, Greece, in the Aegean Sea, spanning the period from approximately 3000 BC-2000 BC.

It consists of the Cyclades and Dodecanese island groups in the central and southeastern Aegean Sea.

The time period that Thucydides was most likely referencing was the time between 3000 BC and 2000 BC when viticulture emerged in force in the areas of Asia Minor, Crete, Greece and the Cyclades of the Aegean Sea.

By Basil ’ s death in 1025 Greece was divided into themes including Crete, the Peloponnese, Hellas, Nicopolis, Larissa, Cephalonia, Thessalonica and Strymon, the Cyclades and the Aegean Sea.

Venetian boats ran alongside the East coast of the Adriatic Sea with stops in Zara, Dyrrachium and Corfou, then around the Peloponese with Koroni and up the Aegean and Cyclades with stops in Naxos, Euboea and Thessaloniki to Constantinople, or via Crete, Alexandria and Syria to Egypt.

Kea (), also known as Gia or Tzia (), Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos (, ), is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece.

In modern times, the use of charnel houses is a characteristic of cultures living in rocky or arid places, such as the Cyclades archipelago and other Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.