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  • proper noun An island in the Sporades administered by Euboea or Evia in Greece
  • proper noun A village in the Sporades administered by Euboea or Evia in Greece

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Examples

  • Kimon also led a colony to Skyros, which island was taken by Kimon on the following pretext.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • The Skyros is a concept camera that launches into the sky and snaps pictures as it descends.

    Crave: The gadget blog 2008

  • The Skyros is a concept camera that launches into the sky and snaps pictures as it descends.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2008

  • Yes, Steven Berkoff will be on hand to get your creative juices flowing on a 10-night writing break in Cuba with alternative holiday operator Skyros.com.

    Holidays with celebrities: star-spangled banter 2011

  • Skyros has previously run writing trips by such literary luminaries as Hanif Kureishi, Margaret Drabble and Hilary Mantel, and other teachers this year include philosopher and writer Robert Rowland Smith and comedian Arthur Smith, at the company's usual base on the Greek island of Skyros.• £1,095pp for 10 nights in Cuba in a five-star twin room 01983 865566, skyros.com, including breakfast and two evening meals, but excluding flights.

    Holidays with celebrities: star-spangled banter 2011

  • Writing holidays on Skyros start at £745pp for 10 daysSally Gunnell is leading a family fitness retreat near La Clusaz in the French Alps this summer.

    Holidays with celebrities: star-spangled banter 2011

  • Of his boyfriend Christian Davillerd, with whom Lord first visits Skyros in 1959, Lord writes:

    Travels With Their Aunts 2007

  • Of his boyfriend Christian Davillerd, with whom Lord first visits Skyros in 1959, Lord writes:

    Travels With Their Aunts 2007

  • Since 1984, she has been a curator in Euboea, running and publishing the results of numerous excavations on the island, as well as in Skyros and east Boeotia.

    Meet the Team « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009

  • Here is the telegram Benedict XVI sent today to Orthodox Metropolitan Seraphim of Karystia and Skyros upon hearing the news of the death of Orthodox Archbishop Christodoulus of Athens and All Greece.

    Archive 2008-01-27 papabear 2008

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