The TCC country list has Crete, "Ionian Islands", and Dodecanese. These three used to be prefectures (nomoi.)
In 2011, all subdividing was changed, the prefectures are gone, and the highest level are now seven decentralized administrations (αποκεντρωμένες διοικήσεις, apokentroménes dioikíseis). The ones that merit TCC status are Crete and the Aegean. The Ionian Islands disappeared into the adm.subd. of Epirus, Western Greece, and Ionia. You lose two countries and you gain one..
However, these dec.adms. have little meaning. Bureaucratically, the country is divided into 13 regions (περιφέρειες, periféreies), each being equal to an dec.adm. or a part of one. If you go by that, the Ionian Islands are a "country" again and there is a Northern Aegean Islands region, and a Southern Aegean Islands region. You lose one, you gain two. These regions are not subdivisions of the dec.adms.; they are an independent partitioning of the country
Somebody will have to figure this out. In either case, the Dodecanese has only an historical meaning.
This all started when I tried to figure out the exact extent of the Dodecanese, and discovered that there isn't any defined, not at the present.
-- Daan
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