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  • proper noun A Greek island in the east of the Cyclades
  • proper noun A town, the capital of the island of that name.

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  • Delegates visited the City Hall in Chora, and watched the film "Amorgos", produced by the Amorgos Municipality.

    TravelDailyNews.com 2010

  • Delegates visited the City Hall in Chora, and watched the film "Amorgos", produced by the Amorgos Municipality.

    TravelDailyNews.com 2010

  • In the course of our holiday we spent a few days on four islands in the south of the Cyclades: Santorini, Naxos, Ano Koufonissi and Amorgos.

    zizi 2007

  • In the course of our holiday we spent a few days on four islands in the south of the Cyclades: Santorini, Naxos, Ano Koufonissi and Amorgos.

    prude 2007

  • Tips include going to Amorgos, a largely desolate Greek island; gorilla habitats in western Rwanda (good luck); a private island resort in French Polynesia called Le Taha'a; and the supposed "new Nantucket," Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

    James Warren: This Week in Magazines: A Jihad on Behalf of Usury Laws, An "Idiot's Guide to Pakistan," and The Agenda for K Street's Trout Lobbyists 2009

  • A tsunami in 1908 in Messina, Italy, killed thousands, and the 1956 Amorgos earthquakes in Greece triggered waves rising up to the level of five-story buildings.

    Europe's Tsunami of Inaction 2008

  • The Amorgos spilled roughly 1,150 tonnes of fuel oil into waters near Kenting National Park in January.

    East Coast Oil Slick Michael Turton 2007

  • In the Amorgos case two crew members were detained for a month by then EPA head Hau Lung-bin, currently the new mayor of Taipei:

    East Coast Oil Slick Michael Turton 2007

  • Although some made links between this case and the disastrous Amorgos wreck off Kenting in 2001, the Tzini only fouled the waters off Suao with 100 tons of oil, whereas the Amorgos put more than 1,100 tons into the waters of Kenting National Park.

    East Coast Oil Slick Michael Turton 2007

  • At another time, when the Athenians received their naval defeat near Amorgos, he hastened home before the news could reach the city, and, having a chaplet on his head, came riding through the

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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