Archipelago

Origin

The word Archipel comes from the Greek Archipelagos , literally “principal sea”. Indeed, this word indicated originally the Aegean Sea, characterized by its great number of islands (the Cyclades, the Sporades, Salamine, Eubée, Samothrace, Lemnos, Samos, Lesbos, Chios, Rhodos, etc). When the majority of these islands were removed with the Byzantine Empire at the beginning of the 13th century by Marco Sanudo, Venetian general, this one was made duke of the Archipelago .

Geography

In Geography, the concept of archipelago also evokes phenomena which fall under some restricted spaces. For example, in the study of the current mondialized economy, the geographers such Pierre Veltz speaks about a “ saving in archipel ” : the worldwide economy is controlled starting from a restricted number of Métropole S connected well between them by powerful means of communication, sea routes with the Télécommunication S. These metropolises seem an archipelago of islands insulated on a sea.

Right

In International law and Right of the sea, the concept of State archipelago indicates a State entirely made up by one or more archipelagoes and possibly of other islands.

the Gulag Archipelago

In its Gulag Archipelago , Alexandre Soljenitsyne presents the Gulag like an archipelago. Indeed, the Soviet prison camps were as insulated in Siberia as the being a island can on the Océan.

See too

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List of archipelagoes

Cbk-zam: Arquipelago Simple: Archipelago

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