Aegadian Islands

English

A map of the Aegadian Islands.

A view from Erice to Favignana and Levanzo. On the horizon Marettimo is faintly visible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɡeɪdiən ˈaɪləndz/

Proper noun

Aegadian Islands

1. A group of islands located off the western coast of Sicily.
   • 2011, Michael R. Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy, →ISBN, page 1:

     In the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas lie several archipelagos of small Italian islands, some measuring only a few hundred meters across: the Pontine Islands, southwest of Rome; the Aeolian Islands, north of Messina; the Aegadian Islands, west of Sicily; the Pelagie archipelago, some two hundred miles south of Sicily, closer to the shores of Tunisia; and, finally, the Tremiti Islands, off the coast of northern Puglia in the Adriatic.

Synonyms

• Aegadian Isles, Aegadean Islands, Aegadean Isles
• Egadi Islands, Egadi Isles
• historical: Aegates Islands, Aegates Isles, the Aegates

Translations

islands off the coast of Sicily

• French: les îles Égades, les îles Égates
• German: die Ägadischen Inseln
• Italian: le isole Egadi f pl
• Latin: Aegates insulae
• Sicilian: L'Ìsuli Ègadi