Geography

Islands

Tenedos: the third largest island owned by Turkey. Mentioned by Bettany Hughes,

As Tenedos, it is mentioned in both the Iliad and the Aeneid, in the latter as the site where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War in order to trick the Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls.

The island was important throughout classical antiquity despite its small size due to its strategic location at the entrance of the Dardanelles. In the following centuries, the island came under the control of a succession of regional powers, including the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Delian League, the empire of Alexander the Great, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, before passing to the Republic of Venice.

To the west, in the Adriatic Sea:



To the south of the Peloponnese:
Kythera: the only significant island between the Peloponnese and Crete.

Between the Peloponnese and Attica:
Salamis
Aegina

To the southeast of Attica:
the Cyclades: the name refers to the islands around ("cyclic", κυκλάς) the sacred island of Delos. The largest island of the Cyclades is Naxos, however the most populated one is Syros.

Immediately west of Attica:
Euboea: huge, important island

Along the Anatolian coast:

Lemnos

Lesbos

Rhodes




Waterways:

Adriatic Sea: between Italy and Macedonia/Greece.

Mediterranean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Turkish Straits: the Dardanelles and the Bosporus.

The Dardanelles (the Hellespont -- which, if "pont" means "sea" -- a very interesting name)

The Sea of Marmara (Propontis) -- entirely within the borders of Turkey

The Bosporus --

The Black Sea

Port cities:

Pylos

Gythion

Athens/

Marathon

Troy

Miletos


The "big ones":
Peloponnese: Sparta and Argos; Mycenae, Corinth
Attica: Athens and Thebes

Important cities:
Aulis: port city on Attica, directly opposite the huge island of Euboea