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ARCHIPELAGO

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHIPELAGO , a name now applied to any See also:

island-studded See also:sea, but originally the distinctive designation of what is now generally known as the See also:Aegean Sea (Alyaiov iEXayos), its See also:ancient name having been revived. Several etymologies have been proposed: e.g. (I) it is a corruption of the ancient name, Egeopelago; (2) it is from the See also:modern See also:Greek, `Ayto irEXayo, the See also:Holy Sea; (3) it arose at the See also:time of the Latin See also:empire, and means the Sea of the See also:Kingdom (See also:Arch); (4) it is a See also:translation of the See also:Turkish name, Ak Denghiz, See also:Argon Pelagos, the See also:White Sea; (5) it is simply Archipelagus, See also:Italian, arcipelago, the See also:chief sea. For the Grecian Archipelago see AEGEAN SEA. Other archipelagoes are described in their respective places.

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