Dodecanese
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kos and Rhodes.
Kos
Kos is a popular tourist destination in the Greek islands of the Dodecanese, located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast.
Rhodes
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Rhodes is the largest settlement and capital city of the island of the same name. It is famous as the former site of the Colossus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and as the oldest inhabited medieval town in Europe.
Patmos
Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, one of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex.
Destinations to Discover
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Rhodes
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Rhodes is one of the largest and most fertile of the Greek Islands, and is one of the most visited because of its combination of beaches, archaeological sites, and extensive medieval town.
Karpathos
Karpathos, also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos, which is part of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos.
Kastellorizo
Kastellorizo or Castellorizo is one of the Greek Islands of the Dodecanese. It is a tiny, tranquil island ideal for an off-the-beaten-track vacation.
Kalymnos
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Kalymnos is an island in the Dodecanese group of the South Aegean Islands of Greece. It is known for its sunshine and limestone rock climbing cliffs.
Symi
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Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi, is a Greek island and municipality. It is mountainous and has the harbour town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller population centres, beaches and areas of significance in history and mythology.
Leros
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Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens' port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride.
Kasos
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Kasos, also Casos, is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos. The capital of the island is Fri. As of 2021, its population was 1,223.
Nisyros
Nisyros, also spelled Nisiros, is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos.
Astypalaia
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Astypalaia is an island in the Dodecanese. It is shaped like a butterfly, with the two wings joined by a narrow strip of land. The island has high crags, fertile valleys, and dozens of small bays.
Tilos
Tílos is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes.
Lipsi
Leipsoi is an island south of Samos and to the north of Leros in Greece. It is well served with ferries passing between Patmos and Leros and on the main route for ferries from Piraeus.
Halki
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Halki is a small island in the Dodecanese region of the Greek Islands, close to the far busier island of Rhodes. Untouched by mass tourism, it is a great place for a relaxing vacation.
Agathonisi
Agathonísi is a small Greek island and municipality located at the northernmost point of the Dodecanese in Greece. It is surrounded by many smaller islands and is home to two villages, both inland; Megalo Chorio, and Mikro Chorio.
Dodecanese
- Type: island group with 189,000 residents
- Description: group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Dhodhekánisos”, “Nomós Dhodhekanísou”, and “Nomos Dodecanese”
- Location: South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dodecanese” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dodekanese”
- Afrikaans: “Dodekanesos”
- Albanian: “Dodekanes”
- Albanian: “Dodekanezi”
- Arabic: “دوديكانيسيا”
- Arabic: “ذوذيكانيسيا”
- Armenian: “Դոդեկանես”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu del Dodecanesu”
- Azerbaijani: “Dodekanes adaları (On iki ada)”
- Azerbaijani: “Dodekanes adaları”
- Basque: “Dodekaneso”
- Basque: “Dodekanesoko uhartedia”
- Belarusian: “Дадэканес”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвыя Спарады”
- Breton: “Dodekanesa”
- Bulgarian: “Додеканези”
- Bulgarian: “Додеканезки острови”
- Bulgarian: “Южни Споради”
- Catalan: “Dodecanés”
- Catalan: “Dodecanès”
- Catalan: “Dodekànisa”
- Catalan: “On Iki Ada”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Dodekanísou”
- Chinese: “佐則卡尼薩群島”
- Chinese: “佐泽卡尼索斯群岛”
- Chinese: “佐澤卡尼索斯”
- Chinese: “佐澤卡尼索斯群島”
- Chinese: “十二群島”
- Chinese: “多得坎尼群岛”
- Chinese: “多德卡尼斯”
- Chinese: “多德卡尼斯群島”
- Chinese: “多德坎尼斯群岛”
- Chinese: “杜德卡內斯”
- Corsican: “Dudicanesu”
- Croatian: “Dodekanez”
- Czech: “Dodekanés”
- Czech: “Dodekaneské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Dodekanésos”
- Czech: “Dodekanské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Dodekany”
- Danish: “Dodekaneserne”
- Danish: “Dodekanesiske Øer”
- Dutch: “Dodecanese”
- Dutch: “Dodecanesos”
- Dutch: “Dodecanesus”
- Dutch: “Dodekanese”
- Dutch: “Dodekanesos”
- Dutch: “Dodekánesos”
- Dutch: “Dodekanisos”
- Dutch: “Dodekánisos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوديكانيس”
- Esperanto: “Dodekaneso”
- Esperanto: “Dodekanesoj”
- Esperanto: “Dodekanezo”
- Esperanto: “Dodekanoj”
- Estonian: “Dodekaneesid”
- Faroese: “Dodekanes”
- Finnish: “Dodekanesia”
- Finnish: “Dodekanesian saaret”
- Finnish: “Dodekanesian saaristo”
- French: “Dodecanese”
- French: “Dodecanèse”
- French: “Dodécanese”
- French: “Dodécanèse”
- Galician: “Dodecaneso - Δωδεκάνησα”
- Galician: “Dodecaneso”
- Georgian: “დოდეკანესის კუნძულები”
- German: “Dodekanes”
- German: “Dodekanisos”
- German: “GR-81”
- Greek: “Dímos Ko”
- Greek: “Δήμος Κω”
- Greek: “Δωδεκάνησα”
- Greek: “Δωδεκάνησος”
- Greek: “Κως”
- Greek: “Νομός Δωδεκανήσου”
- Hebrew: “דודקאנס”
- Hebrew: “דודקנז”
- Hebrew: “דודקנס”
- Hebrew: “האיים הדודקאנסיים”
- Hebrew: “האיים הדודקנסים”
- Hebrew: “האיים הדוקדנסיים”
- Hungarian: “Dodekanészosz”
- Icelandic: “Tylftareyjar”
- Ido: “Dodekanes”
- Indonesian: “Dodekanisa”
- Indonesian: “Δωδεκάνησα”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Dhóideacanacha”
- Italian: “Dodecaneso”
- Italian: “Dodecanneso”
- Italian: “Isole del Dodecaneso”
- Japanese: “ドデカニーズ諸島”
- Japanese: “ドデカニサ”
- Japanese: “ドデカニサ諸島”
- Japanese: “ドデカネーズ”
- Japanese: “ドデカネーズ諸島”
- Japanese: “ドデカネーゼ”
- Japanese: “ドデカネーゼ諸島”
- Japanese: “ドデカネス”
- Japanese: “ドデカネス県”
- Japanese: “ドデカネス諸島”
- Korean: “도데카네스 제도”
- Korean: “도데카네스”
- Korean: “도데카니사 제도”
- Korean: “도데카니사 주”
- Korean: “도데카니사 현”
- Korean: “도데카니사”
- Korean: “도데카니소스”
- Latin: “Dodecanesos”
- Latin: “Dodecanesus”
- Latvian: “Dodekanesa”
- Lithuanian: “Dodekanesas”
- Macedonian: “Додеканези”
- Malay: “Dodecanese”
- Malay: “Dodekanisa”
- Mazanderani: “دودکانیس”
- Narom: “Dodécanèse”
- Northern Frisian: “Dodekanes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dodekanesene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dodekanesiske øyer”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dodekanesane”
- Norwegian: “Dodekanesene”
- Persian: “دودکانس”
- Persian: “دودکانسا”
- Polish: “Dodekanez”
- Portuguese: “Dodecaneso”
- Romanian: “Arhipelagul Dodecanez”
- Romanian: “Dodecanez”
- Romanian: “Insulele dodecaneze”
- Russian: “Додеканезские острова”
- Russian: “Додеканес”
- Russian: “Додеканесские острова”
- Russian: “Спорады Южные”
- Russian: “Южные Спорады”
- Scots: “Dodecanese”
- Serbian: “Dodekanez”
- Serbian: “Δωδεκάνησα”
- Serbian: “Додеканез”
- Serbian: “Додекани”
- Serbian: “Додоканези”
- Serbian: “Префектура Додеканез”
- Serbian: “Префектура Додекани”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dodekanez”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Dodekani”
- Sicilian: “Dodecannesu”
- Slovak: “Dodekaneské ostrovy”
- Slovak: “Dodekanéske ostrovy”
- Slovak: “Dodekanesos”
- Slovak: “Dodekanésos”
- Slovak: “Dodekanéz”
- Slovak: “Dodekanezos”
- Slovak: “Dodekanézske ostrovy”
- Slovak: “Dodekanézy”
- Slovak: “Dodekanisa”
- Slovak: “Dodekanisos”
- Slovak: “Dodekanské ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Dodekanez”
- Slovenian: “Dodekanisos”
- Slovenian: “GR-81”
- Spanish: “Archipielago del Dodecaneso”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago del Dodecaneso”
- Spanish: “Dodecaneso”
- Spanish: “Islas del Dodecaneso”
- Swedish: “Dodekaneiska öarna”
- Swedish: “Dodekaneserna”
- Swedish: “Dodekanesos”
- Swedish: “Dodekanisos”
- Swedish: “Tolvöarna”
- Thai: “Dodecanese”
- Thai: “โดเดคะนีส”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะโดเดคะนีส”
- Turkish: “12 Ada”
- Turkish: “12 Adalar”
- Turkish: “Nero Island”
- Turkish: “On İki Ada”
- Turkish: “Oniki Ada”
- Turkish: “Oniki Adalar”
- Turkish: “Onikiada”
- Ukrainian: “Додеканес”
- Ukrainian: “Додеканеські острови”
- Ukrainian: “Південні Споради”
- Urdu: “Dodecanese”
- Urdu: “جزائر دؤدیکانیز”
- Urdu: “جزائر ڈوڈکینیز”
- Urdu: “ڈوڈکینیز”
- Vietnamese: “Dodecanese”
- Vietnamese: “Dodekanisa”
- Vietnamese: “Dodekánisa”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Dodecanese”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dodekanesa”
- Welsh: “Dodecanese”
- Western Armenian: “Տոտեքանիսա”
- Western Panjabi: “جزائر ڈوکینیز”
- Wu Chinese: “十二群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “十二群島”
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