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Nax⋅os

[nak-sos, -sohs, -suhs; Gk. nah-ksaws]
–noun
a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 14,201; 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
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Nax·os or Náx·os   (nāk'sŏs, -sōs, -səs, näk'sôs)   
An island of southeast Greece in the Aegean Sea. The largest of the Cyclades, it was famous in ancient times as a center of Dionysian worship. Naxos belonged to Venice and then Turkey before it became part of independent Greece in 1829.
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