What the records say
- When
- 1947
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Dodecanese Islands
- Coordinates
- 36.40° N, 27.20° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 115343
- Area km2
- 2681
- Gaining
- Greece
- Losing
- Italy
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Dodecanese
Group of Greek islands
The Dodecanese are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. This island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the wider Southern Sporades island group.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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