transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈspȯr-ə-ˌdēz, ˈspär- ]
geographical name
two island groups Greece in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades (chief island Skyros, N of Euboea & E of Thessaly) & the Southern Sporades (chiefly Samos, Ikaria, & the Dodecanese, off SW Turkey)