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chalcis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chalcis \Chalcis\ n. the type genus of the Chalcididae.
Syn: genus Chalcis.
Wiktionary
n. A city in Euboea, Greece.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Chalcis (; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: , Chalkís) or Chalkida (Modern , ) is the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from antiquity and is derived from the Greek χαλκός ( copper, bronze), though there is no trace of any mines in the area. In the late Middle Ages, it was known as Negropont, a name that was applied to the entire island of Euboea as well. Its people are known in English as Chalcidians.
Chalcis (latinizatio of Greek Khalkis) is a city on the Euripus Strait between the island of Euboea and the Greek mainland.
Two other cities were named after it in Antiquity:
- Chalcis in Syria (ad Belum), modern Qinnasrin
- Chalcis in Europa, modern Inecik in European Turkey
It can be also:
- Chalcis Province, a province in Euboea, Central region in Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central of Greece
- Chalcis (wasp), a genus of Chalcid wasp
Chalcis is a wasp genus in the tribe Chalcidini.
Usage examples of "chalcis".
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae—and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae -- and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae - and countless unnatural mutations of them all.
He conducted Sapor over the Euphrates, and, by the way of Chalcis, to the metropolis of the East.
Under the reign of Phocas, the fortifications of Merdin, Dara, Amida, and Edessa, were successively besieged, reduced, and destroyed, by the Persian monarch: he passed the Euphrates, occupied the Syrian cities, Hierapolis, Chalcis, and Berrhaea or Aleppo, and soon encompassed the walls of Antioch with his irresistible arms.
Furnish me then, if you approve, with such a force as shall suffice to garrison Oreus, Chalcis and Corinth, so that with all safe in my rear I may make war upon Nabis and the Lacedaemonians free from misgivings.
He also sent Polyphantas with a small force into Boeotia, and Menippus, one of his generals, with 1000 peltasts to Chalcis.