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/saɪklˈeɪdiz/ /sˈaɪklˌædz/ Listen

Cyclades

noun

The Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC. Synonyms: Cycladic civilisation, Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culture.

A group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean. Synonym: Kikladhes.

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... east of Cythera the island, the hundred galleys assembled. There the tribune gave one day to inspection. He sailed then to Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades, midway the coasts of Greece and Asia, like a great stone planted in the centre of a highway, from which he could challenge everything that passed; at the same time, he would be in position to go after ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... Saracen conquest: how Tripoli and Tyre were betrayed; how Caesarea was captured; how with the trees of Libanus and the sailors of Phoenicia a Saraeen fleet was equipped, which drove the Roman navy into the Hellespont; how Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclades, were ravaged, and the Colossus, which was counted as one of the wonders of the world, sold to a Jew, who loaded nine hundred camels with its brass; how the armies of the khalif advanced to the Black Sea, and even lay in front of Constantinople—all ...

— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... Captain Nemo. "It is Nicholas of Cape Matapan, surnamed Pesca. He is well known in all the Cyclades. A bold diver! water is his element, and he lives more in it than on land, going continually from one island to another, ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Cyclades" : Greece, Aegean civilisation, Cycladic civilisation, Hellenic Republic, Kikladhes, Aegean island, Cycladic civilization, Aegean culture, Ellas, Aegean civilization