cyclades

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An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and Zea

{i} group of more than 200 Greek islands in the southern Aegean Sea

the Cyclades a group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, including Naxos and Paros. Greek Kikládhes Group of about 30 islands, southern Aegean Sea. They cover a land area of 976 sq mi (2,528 sq km) and constitute the Cyclades department (pop., 1991: 94,000) of Greece, which has its capital at Ermoúpolis. Their name refers to the ancient tradition that they formed a circle around the sacred island of Delos. The chief islands are Andros, Tínos, Náxos, Amorgós, Melos, Páros, Syros, Kéa, Kíthnos, Serifos, Íos, and Thíra. They were the centre of a Bronze Age culture, the Cycladic, noted for its white marble idols, and later belonged to the Mycenaean culture in the 2nd millennium BC. Colonized by Ionians in the 10th-9th centuries BC, they later were successively held by Persians, Athenians, Ptolemaic Egyptians, and Macedonians. Ruled by Venice after the early 13th century AD, the islands fell to the Turks in 1566. They became part of Greece in 1829. The economy is now based on tourism and on the export of wine, hides, pottery, and handicrafts

An island chain in southeast-central Greece, including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, and Tinos

the pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean sea

a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean

المصطلحات ذات الصلة

Cycladic

of, or relating to the Cyclades

Cycladic

{s} of or pertaining to the Cyclades; of or pertaining to the pre-Mycenaean civilization that existed on the islands of the Cyclades (c.6000-2200 BC)

الواصلة

cyc·la·des

التركية النطق

saykleydiz

النطق

/sīˈklādēz/ /saɪˈkleɪdiːz/

علم أصول الكلمات

() From Ancient Greek Κυκλάδες (Kyklades), plural of Κυκλάς (Kyklas), from κύκλος (kyklos, “circle, ring”).