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
Twenty-four come from Samos, and twenty more from Zakynthos, and twelve from Ithaca.
From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
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