The Ancient Aegean Region was a region in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that included several ancient civilizations. The crossword solutions for this term include Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey; Minoan, an ancient civilization on the island of CRETE; Thrace, a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe; RHODES, an island in the southeastern Aegean Sea; CRETE, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands; and Troas, an ancient region in northwest Anatolia.