PAXOÍ

päksēˈ or Paxospăkˈsəs, island (1991 pop. 2,175), c.7 sq mi (18 sq km), NW Greece, in the Ionian Sea; one of the Ionian Islands. Olive oil, citrus fruits, and almonds are produced. Tourism is an important industry.

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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
Book by Robin Waterfield; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Sophists (Greek Philosophy)
...ship under an Egyptian helmsman was becalmed off the island of Paxoi, which lies off the western coast of Greece, just south of...replied, When you reach the sea off Palodes -- a place on Paxoi, presumably -- you are to call out, "Great Pan is dead...
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The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, 3000-800 BC
Book by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood; Liverpool University Press, 1999
...the glacial maximum when the sea levels were at their lowest approximately 100m lower than today , meant that Kerkyra, the Paxoi islands and Lefkada were joined to the mainland, while Kefalonia, Ithaki and Zakynthos formed one large island very close...
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Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia
Book by Trevor Murphy; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Pliny--The Elder--Naturalis Historia, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
...ship drifting along the Echinades on the west coast of Greece on their way to Italy heard a mysterious voice from the island of Paxoi hailing their pilot, an Egyptian named Thamous. After being hailed three times, Thamous answered the voice, which asked...
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Florence Nightingale's European Travels
Book by Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004
Subjects: Europe--Description And Travel, Nightingale, Florence--1820-1910--Travel--Europe, Nurses--England--Biography, Women Social Reformers--England--Biography
...day but they are bright and glowing even in a mist, and the vines and cypresses looked warm. We passed between Actium and Paxoi and the sun set upon Parga, miserable Parga, in which there is now not a Christian left, an exquisite little town crowning...


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St. Paul's Shipwreck and Early Christianity in Malta
Journal article by Mario Buhagiar; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects: Christianity, Malta, Poetry, Religion
...island of Levkas he -was informed by the natives that the place, together -with the neighboring islands of Andipaxoi and Paxoi, had been freed of poisonous creatures by the virtue of St. Paul, -who had preached there after his ship-wreck.79 The...


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encyclopedia articles on: PaxoI  - 2 results

 
 
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Ionian Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sq km), W Greece, in the Ionian Sea, along the coasts of Epirus and the Peloponnesus. The group is made up of Kerkira , Paxoi , Lefkas , Kefallinia , Ithaki , Zakinthos , Kithira , and numerous islets. Largely mountainous, the islands reach their highest...
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PaxoÍ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAXOI pakse or Paxos pak s s, island (1991 pop. 2,175), c.7 sq mi (18 sq km), NW Greece, in the Ionian Sea; one of the...


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