Crossword clues for samos
samos
- Island nation's losing a part of Greece
- Aegean Sea island
- Island birthplace of Pythagoras
- Eye in the sky
- Temple of Hera site
- Pythagoras was born there
- Member of the ancient Ionian League
- Isle in the Aegean
- Island once ruled by Polycrates
- Island on which Pythagoras was born
- Greek island
- Greek island where Pythagoras was born
- Greek island where Pythagoras and Epicurus were born
- Greek island off the coast of Turkey
- Greek island near Turkey
- Aesop's home
- Island birthplace of Epicurus
- It's north of the Dodecanese Islands
- Aegean island, home of the despot Polycrates
- U.S. spy satellite
- U.S. reconnaissance satellite
- Birthplace of Pythagoras
- Aegean island or U.S. satellite
- Greek isle
- Island in the Delian League
- Island in the Aegean
- Greek island in the Aegean Sea
- "Eye in the sky"
- Watchdog satellite
- Greek island, second to be captured by special troops
- Greek island's request for help to save American
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Greek island in the Aegean, from Old Greek samos "a height, dune, seaside hill." Many references to it are as the birthplace of Pythagoras. Related: Samian.
Wikipedia
The Samos E or SAMOS ("Satellite and Missile Observation System") program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United States in the early 1960s, also used as a cover for the initial development of the KH-7 Gambit system. Reconnaissance was performed with film cameras and television surveillance from polar low Earth orbits with film canister returns and transmittals over the United States. Samos was first launched in 1960 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
SAMOS was also known by the unclassified terms Program 101 and Program 201.
The term Samos may refer to:
In geography
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Samos, Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea
- Samos (theme), a military-civilian province of the Byzantine Empire
- Samos Prefecture, a former administrative unit of Greece
- Samos Province, a former administrative unit of Greece
- Samos (town), a port town on Samos
- Vathy, Samos, the capital of Samos
- Principality of Samos
- Samos International Airport
- Samicum, an ancient city in Triphylia, Greece
- Samos, Galicia, a village in Spain
- Samos, Lugo, the municipality around the village of Samos, Spain
- Samoš, Serbian village
In fiction
- Samos, a fictional character in the Jak and Daxter game series
- Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, a fictional character in the Gor series of novels
Other uses
- Samos (satellite), an American surveillance satellite
Samos (; ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region, and the only municipality of the regional unit.
In ancient times Samos was a particularly rich and powerful city-state, particularly known for its vineyards and wine production. It is home to Pythagoreion and the Heraion of Samos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes the Eupalinian aqueduct, a marvel of ancient engineering. Samos is the birthplace of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, after whom the Pythagorean theorem is named, the philosopher Epicurus, and the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, the first known individual to propose that the Earth revolves around the sun. Samian wine was well known in antiquity, and is still produced on the island.
The island was governed by the semi-autonomous Principality of Samos under Ottoman suzerainty from 1835 until it joined Greece in 1912.
Samoš ( Serbian Cyrillic: Самош) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.73%) and its population numbering 1,247 people (2002 census).
The Theme of Samos (, thema Samou) was a Byzantine military-civilian province, located in the eastern Aegean Sea, established in the late 9th century. As one of the Byzantine Empire's three dedicated naval themes (Greek: ), it served chiefly to provide ships and troops for the Byzantine navy.
Samos (, before 1958: Λιμήν Βαθέος - Limin Vatheos) is a port town on the island of Samos in Greece. It is also known as Kato Vathy , referring to its location below Vathy. In 2011 it had a population of 6,251.
Usage examples of "samos".
They had been sold to the harem by an infamous merchant of Samos who trafficked in abducted Greek youths.
Although he controlled the Greek cities of Asia Minor and exercised a degree of suzerainty over a number of islands like Samos, the Great King was never much interested in the western world, particularly after his defeat on the Danube.
When the tyrant of Samos was put to death by the Persian satrap at Sardis, his physician Democedes was enslaved.
He had served Pisistratus at Athens, Polycrates in Samos, and the Great King himself at Susa.
I can remember when the court at Samos was even more dazzling than that of Pisistratus.
My first task, then, clear-cut in the fourth panel, had been to hie me from Samos to Mount Atlas, where sat the crony trio on their thrones, facing outward back to back and shoulder shoulder in a mean triangle.
In Erythraea I have spoken, and in Phrygia, in Samos and Libya and many other holy places in the lands of men.
He must have known the systems of Philolaus and of Hipparchus, and that of Aristarchus of Samos which was my choice in later years, but these speculations had ceased to interest him.
More than half the cargo of oil was intact, and we headed for Samos to trade the oil for anything that might turn a profit.
And the latter is really the malice that Epicurus aimed at Plato: he was peeved by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene at which Plato and his disciples were so expert - at which Epicurus was not an expert - he, that old schoolmaster from Samos who sat, hidden away, in his little garden at Athens and wrote three hundred books - who knows?
But she and Tanvir had presumably been required to go out so a mother-in-law could enjoy herself not the samos as one, as I discovered when I phoned.
King demanded that Smyrna, Ephesus, Priene, Miletus, Halicarnassus and the islands of Chios and Samos donate him all the ships he needed.
The way he tells it, Coleus of Samos was the first Greek to sail out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic.
The way he tells it, Coleus of Samos was the first Greek to sail out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic .
So, banking on Dictys to safekeep her, I'd set out for Samos on a tip from half-sister Athene, to learn about life from art: for represented in her temple murals there (and so reditto'd here in mine) were all three Gorgons -- snakehaired, swinetoothed, buzzardwinged, brassclawed -- whereof, as semiSis was pointing out, only the middle one, Medusa, was mortal, decapitable, and petrifacient.