Skyros

American  

[skahy-ros, -rohs, skee-raws] / ˈskaɪ rɒs, -roʊs, ˈski rɔs /

Or Skíros,

noun

1. a Greek island in the W Aegean: the largest island of the Northern Sporades. 81 sq. mi. (210 sq. km).

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Skyros British  

/ ˈskiːrɒs /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Skíros.  a Greek island in the Aegean, the largest island in the N Sporades. Pop: 2602 (2001). Area: 199 sq km (77 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

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Skyros

My apartment in Athens is not much bigger than our one-room home on Skyros.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020

For me, that place is Skyros — an out-of-the-way Greek island where I have spent every long, hot summer since the age of five, when my parents bought a tiny stable in the hilltop village.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020

Though they were once found throughout the isles, eventually they became limited to Skyros, where the animals grew small and evolved adaptations to island life.

From National Geographic

Without waiting for the final cleanup in Greece, the German Army occupied at least six Greek islands: Samothrace, Lemnos, Mytilene, Thasos, Skyros, Melos.

From Time Magazine Archive

I brought him from Skyros, myself, in a ship to Troy, and placed him in the Greek army.

From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)