Özet:

The sea area, located between the Anatolian Coasts and the Balkan Peninsula, has been called by different names such as Aigaios Pontos, Pelagos Aigaion, Aigaion Pelagos in Greek, and Bahr-î Sefid, Cezyir-î Bahri Sefid, Inter-Islands, the Archipelago in Turkish. Societies or tribes, which trying to dominate this sea, have tried to name and interpret this sea by means of their own customs/traditions in accordance with their claims of domination. The mentioned sea is now called the "Aegean Sea" and this name is tried to be identified by the Greeks with the mythological hero Aegeus, the king of Athens, in Ancient Greece. However, it is necessary to investigate more etymological origins in naming geographical places. In this context, when the subject is examined, there are arguments the name "Aegean" has a language link with the Luwi language, which is the base culture of the Hellenic culture, and the words "Ög-Uz, Ög-İz", which means "stream, sea, water cover" in Proto-Turkic. In this study, the term Aegean; The mythological denotation of the reference in scientific studies will be discussed, evaluated within the etymological framework, and the terms the Archipelago, Inter-Islands used in the Ottoman Empire will be examined.

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