Oxeia is a Greek

Greece

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 island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the Ionian Sea

Ionian Sea

The Ionian Sea , is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and...

. It is the chief island in the southern group (the Oxeiae

Oxeiae

The Oxeiae or Oxeias or Oxiés or Scrofés are the group of southern islands in the Echinades chain, which itself forms a portion of the Ionian Islands of Greece. The name comes from the chief island of Oxeia....

) of the Echinades

Echinades

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, part of the Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands

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. Oxeia possesses the highest point in the Echinades, 421 m. The mountains of Aitoloakarnania on the mainland are to the northeast. The island is around 5 km in length and its width is approximately 2 km. There are two summits. The Battle of Lepanto

Battle of Lepanto

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 took place near the island in 1571.

Panorama

The island can be seen as far as Aitoloakarnania, northern and western Achaia except for the plain area of northwestern Achaia, much of northern and northwestern Ilia

Elis Prefecture

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, parts of Zakynthos

Zakynthos

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, southeastern Kefalonia

Kefalonia

The island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit...

, Ithaca

Ithaca

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 and southeastern Lefkada

Lefkada

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 and its nearby islands and western and southern Aitoloakarnania.

External links

• Map and aerial photos:
• Oxeia or Oxia on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)
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