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noun

Cyclades n.

The pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea.

Synonyms: Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culture.

An archipelago consisting of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean sea.

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Etymology of 'Cyclades'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... alone, where the Nile breaks the rich dank soil, and where myriad cities pour their taxes into his treasuries. Ptolemy held lands also in Phoenicia, and Arabia; he claimed Syria and Libya and Aethiopia; he was lord of the distant Pamphylians, of the Cilicians, the Lycians and the Carians, and the Cyclades owned his mastery. Thus the wealth of the richest part of the world flowed into Alexandria, attracting thither the priests of strange religions, the possessors of Greek learning, the painters and sculptors whose work has left its traces on the ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

... from Carrara, Italy, is most esteemed on account of a pinkish tint given by a trace of oxide of iron. The best of Grecian marble was from Paros, one of the Cyclades. The isles of the Mediterranean are of limestone, or of volcanic, origin, often of both. 256. Calcium Sulphate occurs in two forms, (1) with water of crystallization—gypsum, CaSO4 2 H2O, —(2) ...

— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams

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