Ionian Islands: are a group
of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e.
"the Seven Islands" (Greek: Ἑπτάνησα, Heptanēsa, or Ἑπτάνησος,
Heptanēsos; Italian: Eptaneso), but the group includes many smaller
islands as well as the seven principal ones. In Ancient Greek the
adjective Ionios (Ἰόνιος) was used as an epithet for the sea between
Epirus and Italy in which the Ionian Islands are found because Io swam
across it. Latin transliteration, as well as Modern Greek pronunciation,
may suggest that the Ionian Sea and Islands are somehow related to
Ionia, an Anatolian region; in fact the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands
are spelled in Greek with an omicron (Ιόνια), whereas Ionia has an omega
(Ιωνία).
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