What is "agio"

Usage examples of "agio".

Ebon Rih, meeting with the Queens who ruled the Rihlander Blood villages of Doun and Agio, and talking to the council members who ran the larger landen villages.

Heraklion had set me down where the track for Agios Georgios leaves the road.

All the other attractions of Agios Georgios could be found in a score of similar villages, in Crete or elsewhere.

Soho Greek, originally a native of Agios Georgios, who emigrated to London twenty years ago, made his pile as a restaurateur, and has now come back, as these folk do, and wants to settle at home.

Crete, stayed the night in Heraklion, and gone to Agios Georgios next day, by the bi-weekly bus.

The track to Agios Georgios wound its way between high banks of maquis, the scented maquis of Greece.

Well, Mark he know of an old church, in a hollow of the mountains, not far from the coast, to the east of Agios Georgios.

There is a small thing wrong with the engine, so I am to go along to Agios Georgios for what I need, then return in the evening to meet Mark and Colin.

Perhaps in the old days it was the road from Agios Georgios to the church and the auncient harbor, I do not know.

Ah, well, now that the hotel was getting under way, and so efficiently, no doubt there would soon be many visitors, Americans too, and Agios Georgios would prosper.

I had only to walk in, there was no house in Agios Georgios where I would not be welcome, so young and pretty, and speaking such good Greek .

Would you believe it, when we were children, my father had his own caique, and when his uncle died, we inherited land, the land up at the head of the plateau, where it is sheltered, the best in Agios Georgios!

Regardless now of who could see me, I started up the slope of the hollow, back toward Agios Georgios.

Josef was heading when he killed him, but the odds were it was Agios Georgios .

I was prepared to stay placidly in Agios Georgios, under his eye, until my holiday came to its natural end.