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Dodecanese, Sporades and Saronic Islands

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  1. Which island remained autonomous until 1948, when together with the rest of the Dodecanese Islands it joined Greece?
  2. Which Greek island in the Aegean Sea, also spelled Icaria, lies 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos?
  3. Along with the rest of which island group did Symi change hands several times in the 20th century?
  4. Which Greek island, apart from the nearby islet of Strongyli, is the easternmost Greek island, situated in the Levantine Sea?
  5. In the 17th century, pirate bases included the island of Kythira, situated off the southeastern tip of which Greek peninsula?
  6. Which influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet from the island of Skiathos lived from 1851 to 1911?
  7. Lying east of the Pelion peninsula and north of Euboea, Skopelos belongs to which northern island group?
  8. To protect the Mediterranean monk seal, the National Marine Park was created in 1992 around which Aegean island?
  9. Which Sporades island was consecutively known in antiquity as Pelasgia, Dolopia, and The Island of the Magnetes?
  10. Which Saronic island derives its name according to tradition from the mother of the mythological hero Aeacus?
  11. Which city island is known for the Battle of Salamis, the decisive naval victory of the Athenian-led allied Greek fleet, led by Themistocles, over the Persian Empire in 480 BC?
  12. Like other ports in which body of water, it is a popular weekend destination for Athenian travellers?
  13. Which small island is located between the Peloponnese and Kythira?
  14. Which Ionian island is celebrated in Homer's epic Odyssey as the island kingdom of Odysseus?

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