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'''Aegea''' is a back-formation from "[[Aegean Sea|Aegean]]", the sea that was named for an [[eponym]]ous [[Aegeus]] in early levels of [[Greek mythology]]. The ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' (1911) mentioned an '''Aegea,''' queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean Sea, and Aegea was the name of the wife of the Roman [[proconsul]] of [[Achaia]] whom the [[apostle Andrew]] converted and baptised, according to [[Jacob de Voragine]]'s ''[[Golden Legend]]'', ''De Sancto Andrea Apostolo.'' "Aegea" is found in modern baby-name books and carried by some contemporary women.
Modern Italian has the adjective ''Egea'' ("Aegean"), but [[Latin (language)|Classical Latin]] had none. Modern botanical Latin sometimes uses the [[species|specific epithet]] ''aegea'' to mean "of the Aegean".
Modern usages include "Aegea" as a Turkish socio-geographic term for the Aegean basin and the nations around it, as in "[[İzmir]], pearl of Aegea." Geologists also use "Aegea" to describe the fragmentary rotating crustal block that supports mainland Greece and the Aegean basin, as a parallel to "[[Anatolia]]." This block is rotating counter-clockwise and is being strongly subducted into a line of trenches south of [[Crete]].
Near another city of Aegea, in [[Euboea]], [[Poseidon]] had his watery palace.
Aegea or Aiyai is the ancient name for modern [[Ayas (city)|Ayas]], [[Turkey]].
==External links==
*[http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Feasts-and-Saints/May/May-20.html#thalaleas The Martyrs Thallelaios, Alexander and Asterios]
*[http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/vorag.andrea.html ''Legenda Aurea'':] excerpt (in Latin)
*[http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/cilicia.html ancient coinage of Cilicia]
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