Northern Sporades Islands

In antiquity all the islands around the Cyclades were known as the Sporades (the "Scattered Islands"). Nowadays a distinction is made between the Northern Sporades or Magnesian Islands, lying northeast of Euboea - Skópelos, Skíathos, Alónissos, Skyros and some 75 smaller islands and islets - and the Southern Sporades, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor.