The Sporades or also called Northern Sporades or Thessalian Sporades to distinguish them from the other Sporades, are an archipelago of Greece, north of the Aegean Sea.

They derive their name from the adjective sporas which means ‘scattered’, ‘disseminated’ in ancient Greek, as are the islands that make up this set, as opposed to the group of Cyclades ordered around Delos.

The archipelago comprises eleven islands, of which only four are inhabited.