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euboea

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Eu⋅boe⋅a

  [yoo-bee-uh]
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–noun
a Greek island in the W Aegean Sea. 165,369; 1586 sq. mi. (4110 sq. km). Capital: Chalcis.
Also called Negropont.
Modern Greek, Evvoia.

Related forms:
Eu⋅boe⋅an, adjective, noun
Eu⋅bo⋅ic  [yoo-boh-ik] , adjective
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Eu·boe·a   (yōō-bē'ə)   
An island of central Greece in the Aegean Sea east of the mainland. It was settled by Ionian and Thracian colonists and was later controlled by Athens, Rome, Byzantium, Venice, and Turkey before becoming part of Greece in 1830.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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