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Tha⋅sos

[thah-saws; Eng. they-sos, -sohs]
–noun
a Greek island in the N Aegean. 13,316; ab. 170 sq. mi. (440 sq. km).

Tha⋅si⋅an [they-shee-uhn, -shuhn, -see-uhn] , adjective, noun
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Thá·sos   (thā'sŏs', thä'sôs)   
An island of northeast Greece in the northern Aegean Sea. It was colonized by Phoenicians and later ruled by Athens, Rome, Byzantium, and Turkey. The island was ceded to Greece in 1913.
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