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Euboea

an island in the W Aegean Sea: the largest island after Crete of the Greek archipelago; linked with the mainland by a bridge across the Euripus channel. Capital: Chalcis. Pop.: 198 130 (2001). Area: 3908 sq. km (1509 sq. miles)
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When the news of what had happened in Euboea came to Athens, it caused
In the first year of the war Athens had fortified the island of Atalante off the Opuntian coast to prevent leistikoi from sailing out of Opus and the rest of Locris and attacking Euboea. (75) It was only with the outbreak of war that Athens suddenly had found the need to fortify this particular position, suggesting that piracy was not an enduring regional issue of concern to Athens.
Since then, endemic cases have been reported on the Greek islands of Euboea and Crete [5].
(30) Beard & Henderson 2001:84, 166 verwys geensins na die gebruik van pigmente op beeldhouwerk of op die marmer van tempels nie, en dit terwyl eksotiese gekleurde steen in die Forum Augustum aangetref is: Frigiese purper (pavonazetto), africano met 'n rooiswart kleur, Tunisiese geel (giallo antico) en 'n groen cipollino, afkomstig van Euboea, Griekeland.
Assessing the hydrogeochemistry of groundwaters in ophiolite areas of Euboea Island, Greece, using multivariate statistical methods.
This volume presents the churches of Thessaly, Central Greece, Euboea and the Peloponnese dating from the beginning of the twelfth century to the year 1204.
graeca Uvarov 1942 inhabits the Peloponnese, Kithira, southeastern continental Greece and Euboea. In the Cyclades, the endemic R.
He built an underwater palace near Aigai (a town on the sheltered coast of the island of Euboea), and set up court over the nymphs, water-sprites, fish and other creatures of the ocean.
He is not one to resist the resonance of a mid-15th century sallet or helmet from the Venetian fortress of Chalcis on the Aegean island of Negroponte (present-day Euboea), for instance.
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