The Cyclades are a region of Greece with more than 200 islands in the Aegean Sea The area is 2,572 square kilometers ,with Naxos, the largest island, covering about the one sixth of the total surface Other major islands of the group are Andros, Tinos, Syros Milos, Paros,Santorini, ios, Anafi, serifos, sifnos, Santorini is associated with the lost city of Atlantis after foundings in Akrotiri The population is 97,000 about, and the islands administyration located in Ermoupolis of Syros. The name Cyclades derives from the Greek for Cycle Kiklos because the ancient Greeks believed that the islands where surounding the island of Delos
The Cyclades are a major tourist resort area Volcanic dry and rocky, they are formed by granite,gneiss, marmor,slate, limestones, and schist. The Greek island farmers raise grapes, figes, olives, tomatos,wheat, fruits, and watermellons by irrigation. Exports include marble,fish. wines, and fruits
The Cyclades were the site of an Bronze Age early civilization known as the Cycladic The islands conquered by the Ottoman Turks and the Venetians,during the middle ages, finally became part of independent Greece in 1829.
