Zakynthos
Americannoun
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Also known as Zante, Zakynthos hosts around a thousand nests but also hundreds of thousands of tourists per year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Loukas Karrer, the mayor of the Greek island Zakynthos, saved the island’s entire Jewish population of 275 by refusing to surrender them and then hiding them.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Among the surviving artifacts from St. Nicholas was a paper icon of St. Dionysius of Zakynthos — the patron of forgiveness for having forgiven his brother’s murderer.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
The areas affected are the island of Zakynthos in western Greece, where the epidemiological load worsened by 69% from a week earlier, and the city of Chania in Crete where it rose 54%.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2021
From the steep prow I marked with quickening eye Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek, Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak, And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady.
From Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar
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