Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of islands of southeast Greece in the southern Aegean Sea. The islands were the site of an early Bronze Age culture that is noted for its stylized figurines carved from white marble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea.
- noun an archipelago consisting of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean sea.
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- proper noun An
Aegean island chain in southeast-centralGreece , surrounding the main islandDelos , further including the islands ofAndros ,Naxos , Paros,Santorini ,Syra ,Tinos andZea .
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- noun a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
- noun the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC
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The Cyclades is a group of islands in the South Aegean Sea which forms a department of which country?
August 2007 2007
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It is part of a small group of Aegean islands that took the name Cyclades, from the Greek "cyclos" (circle) because the islands form a circle around Delos, observed as the jewel in the crown of the archipelago.
American Chronicle 2009
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COS, or COOS, one of the islands called the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, famous for being the birth-place of Apelles; now _Stan Co_.
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Moreover they locate the islands interspersed amid the waves, both the greater and also the lesser islands, called Cyclades or
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes
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CYTHNUS, one of the islands called the Cyclades, in the Ægean Sea.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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The island of Delos (Greek: δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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The island of Delos (Greek: δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, IPA: [ˈðilo̞s]), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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The island of Delos (Greek: δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.
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My first stop was the island of Syros, part of the group of islands know as the Cyclades close to Athens coast.
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Irene Adler brought Holmes olives from this region.
December 24, 2012