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

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

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2020

Skyros ponies, thought to have pulled Achilles' legendary chariot, have declined to about 200 animals left on Earth.

From National Geographic

One is Achilles on Skyros, a prime example of the later style of Nicolas Poussin, the master of the 17th century revival of classicism in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kimon also led a colony to Skyros, which island was taken by Kimon on the following pretext.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey