Dodecanese

Dodécanèse English thumb|Satellite view of the Dodecanese islands. Etymology From en el Δωδεκάνησα twelve islands, from grc δώδεκα twelve + grc νῆσος island. Pronunciation en /ˌdəʊdɛkəˈniːz/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dodecanese.wav Southern England en Do de ca nese Proper noun An island chain consisting of twelve main Greek islands; including Rhodes, its capital. Usage notes Despite being part of Greece, the Dodecanese islands are geographically very close to Turkey, with many located just a few miles off the Anatolian coast in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Translations an island chain consisting of twelve main islands Albanian: sq Dodekanes m Armenian: hy Դոդեկանես Asturian: ast Dodecanesu m Basque: eu Dodekaneso Belarusian: be Дадэканес m Breton: br Dodekanesa m Bulgarian: bg Додеканези Catalan: ca Dodecanès m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 十二群島 Shí'èrqúndǎo Corsican: co Dudicanesu m Czech: cs Dodekany, cs Dodekanés Danish: da Dodekaneserne c-p Esperanto: eo Dodekanesoj p Faroese: fo Dodekanes, fo Dodekanesos Finnish: fi Dodekanesia French: fr Dodécanèse m Galician: gl Dodecaneso m Georgian: ka დოდეკანესი German: de Dodekanes m Greek: el Δωδεκάνησα n-p Hungarian: hu Dodekanészosz Icelandic: is Tylftareyjar Irish: ga Oileáin Dhóideacanacha m-p na hOileáin Dhóideacanacha Italian: it Dodecaneso m Japanese: ja ドデカーニソ Dodeká-niso, ja ドデカネス Korean: ko 도데카니사 Latin: la Dodecanesus Latvian: lv Dodekanesa f Lithuanian: lt Dodekanesas m Macedonian: mk Додеканези, mk Додекани Norman: nrf Îles Dodécanèses f-p Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Dodekanesene Nynorsk: nn Dodekanesane Polish: pl Dodekanez m-in Portuguese: pt Dodecaneso m Romanian: ro Dodecanez Russian: ru Додекане́с m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Додека̀не̄з m Latin: sh Dodekànēz m Sicilian: scn Dodecannesu m Slovak: sk Dodekanisa Slovene: sl Dodekanez Spanish: es Dodecaneso m Swedish: sv Dodekanisos Thai: th โดเดคะนีส doo-dee-ká-níis Turkish: tr Onikiada Ukrainian: uk Додекане́с m Waray-Waray: war Dodekanesa Noun p The people of this island chain. See also en Islands Places in Greece en exonyms