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Cyclades
[ sik-luh-deez ]
plural noun
- a group of Greek islands in the S Aegean. 1,023 sq. mi. (2,650 sq. km).
Cyclades
/ ˈsɪkləˌdiːz /
plural noun
- a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles) Modern Greek nameKikládhes
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It travelled with me over the blue Mediterranean, and landed beside me on the shores of the Cyclades.
These reptiles are seldom found in islands, yet Tenos, one of the Cyclades, was supposed to have once swarmed with them.
But Patmos was not one of the Cyclades: it was an Asiatic island, at a considerable distance.
Advancing from one to another in the numerous islands of this sea, they reached the Cyclades and settled there.
The wine was not of local growth, but came for the most part from Tenos and others of the Cyclades.
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