Corfu (Kerkira)? Originally Venetian, then passing under British administration until ceded to Greece in 1864, it was briefly occupied by Mussolini's Italy in 1923 (I had to look up what I only recalled dimly and incompletely), so it has some historical interest. How about adding the Ionian and Dodecanese Islands, at least as a bonus for those of us who can't spot individual islands so readily? (While you're at it, perhaps also the Cyclades and the Pelopponesus. Or Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and the Sinai. But that might wreck the symmetry of your classification system.) And the marker for I or J looked as if it pointed to Thessaly or Western Thrace (although if I'd read the instructions, I'd have seen it had to be an island). If Ibiza is worth noting separately, is Gozo (part of Malta)?
¶ And I vote for North Cyprus, too, if Gaza's included. Not from taking sides in this dispute, but because regardless of international (or Sporclian) recognition, it's been a separate entity since 1974, which is over one-third of a century ago. Its inhabitants voted for a reunion plan with Cyprus a few years ago, but the latter's inhabitants voted against; so it's not necessarily clear that North Cyprus will cease being distinct (part of neither the Republic of Cyprus, the Turkish Republic, or Greece) in the foreseeable future. |