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Melos

Pronunciation: /ˈmiːlɒs/
Definition of Melos
  • a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the south-west of the Cyclades group. It was the centre of a flourishing civilization in the Bronze Age and is the site of the discovery in 1820 of a Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite, the Venus de Milo. Greek name Mílos.

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