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After Florence Sanudo died, she was succeeded by her son Nicholas III. As he was still a minor, the regency was exercised for a time by Nicholas Sanudo. [2] In December 1371, Maria received from her half brother (in reality from her own father in his capacity as regent) the island of Andros, the second largest island of the duchy after Naxos, as a fief.
Andros (Greek: Άνδρος, pronounced) is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Euboea, and about 3 km (2 mi) north of Tinos. It is nearly 40 km (25 mi) long, and its greatest breadth is 16 km (10 mi).
The Woman of Andros is a 1930 novel by Thornton Wilder.Inspired by Andria, a comedy by Terence, it was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1930.. The novel is set on the fictional Greek island of Brynos in the pre-Christian era, probably around 200 B.C. (i.e., in the decline of Greece's golden age though the novel does not give an explicit date) [1] [2] The book examines ...
Head of a female figure, Keros-Syros culture, Early Cycladic II (2700–2300 BC), Louvre. At the end of the 19th century, following the earlier work of antiquaries such as Theodore Bent on Antiparos in 1884, [10] the Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas, having assembled various discoveries from numerous islands, suggested that the Cyclades were part of a cultural unit during the 3rd ...
The sculpture was discovered in the ancient agora of Andros in 1832, just two years following Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire, and originally displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens for several years until it was finally given back to Andros. Today it is housed in the island, in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.
Andros (Greek: Άνδρος), also called Chora (Χώρα, "main town"), is a town and a former municipality on the island of Andros, in the Cyclades, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Andros, of which it is a municipal unit, and shares the island of Andros with the municipal units of Korthio and Ydrousa. [2]
The dazzling white-washed houses, blue-domed churches and azure skies and sea of this uniquely stunning Greek island pull in a reported 3.4 million visitors a year, far outnumbering Santorini’s ...
Andros (Ancient Greek: Ἄνδρος) was the chief city of, and a polis (city-state) [1] on, the island of Andros in the Aegean Sea.The city was named after the island, which, according to tradition, derived its name either from Andreus, a general of Rhadamanthus or from the seer Andrus.