Aegean region

The principle of enameling is very old. The first artistic enamel work originates from the Aegean region (ca. 1600 to 1200 BC). Enameling on an industrial scale for industrial and household use as we know it today, is on the other hand fairly recent, dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It has experienced a boom since World Warn. 

Meijer, P. T. 1995. Dynamics of active continental margins the Andes and the Aegean region. PhD thesis. University of Utrecht. 

Stewart, I.S. and Hancock, P.L. 1991. Scales of structural heterogeneity with neotectonic normal fault zones in the Aegean region. J. Struct. Geol., 13 191-204. 

Fig. 5.12 The Aegean region and the marble islands of Paros, Naxos, and Thasos where much of the marble for Greek and later Roman statuary was quarried...

Traditional Medicine. The dried seed kernels (ghazanfar) and carob flour has long been used as an antidiarrheal by people of the Mediterranean and Aegean regions. The ancient Egyptians used the pods in topical treatments of wounds and eye conditions, and internally in other conditions (manniche). A decoction of the pods has been used for catarrhal infections (uphof). 

Canakkale (Marmara r on) Gumushane (eastern Anatolia region) Konya (middle Anatolia region) Izmir (Aegean region)... 

Abstract Over 200 plant extracts were prepared from different family plants of rich flora of Turkey, in a frame of international collaborative project Bioactive Turkish Plant Constitnents . The plants were chosen randomly and/or partly based on their folkloric uses which belonged to 40 distinct families growing in Aegean and Marmara region, and their extracts were screened for their DNA damaging activity as well as for their human ovarian cytotoxic activity. 

About 200 plant species from 40 families were collected in small quantities, selection was made randomly as well as considering ethnobotanical information obtained from Marmara, Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey. Random acquisition of available plant species is one approach. Maximum diversity in the botanical and geographical sources of the plant samples collected is preferred feature, and Turkey has an advantageous in this aspect [4-7]. 

Most of the plants, collected from Lamiaceae family, are aromatic and grown in Aegean-Mediterranean regions (West-South Anatolia). These are Salvia, Sideritis, Thymus, Origanum, Satureja, Stachys, Micromeria, Nepeta etc. 

Thirty-two samples from three general collection areas in the ET-ASSR region were available. Fifteen samples were collected from several localities at Nemrut Dag on the southwestern shore of Lake Van 10 samples were from several localities at Suphan Dag on the northwestern shore of Lake Van and 6 samples were from a source between the city of Razdan and the northwestern tip of Lake Sevan in the Armenian S.S.R. (Figure 2). A single sample from the Isle of Giali in the Aegean source region was also analyzed. 

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