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92 relations: A Zacinto, Administrative regions of Greece, Agios Nikolaos, Zakynthos, Alexander the Great, Alykes, Arcadia, Arcesius, Argostoli, Arkadioi, Arrowhead, Artemisia, Zakynthos, Bochali, Bronze Age, Catalogue of Ships, Cephalonia, Chrysostomos of Zakynthos, Citrus, Classical Athens, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Dardanus, Dionysios Solomos, Disability benefits, Eastern European Summer Time, Eastern European Time, Elatia, Extermination camp, First Peloponnesian War, Georgios Tertsetis, Greece, Greek mythology, Heptanese School (literature), Homer, Hull (watercraft), Iliad, Ionian Islands, Ionian Islands (region), Ionian Sea, Ithaca, Kastro-Kyllini, Keri, Greece, Kyllini, Elis, Kythira, Laganas, List of rock formations, List of settlements in Zakynthos, Lithakia, Loggerhead sea turtle, Mediterranean climate, Ministry of Health (Greece), Mithridatic Wars, ..., Municipalities and communities of Greece, Myrtus, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Navagio, Nikolaos Koutouzis, Nikolaos Loukanis, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Odysseus, Odyssey, Olive oil, Pelasgians, Peloponnese, Pine, Piraeus, Pitch (resin), Postal codes in Greece, Prefectures of Greece, Regional units of Greece, Republic of Venice, Richard Crawley, Righteous Among the Nations, Science Park Zakynthos, Tar, Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands, Telephone numbers in Greece, Teredo navalis, The Holocaust, Tolmides, Trireme, Ugo Foscolo, Vasilikos, Zakynthos, Vehicle registration plates of Greece, Venetian language, Visual impairment, Vrachionas, World Health Organization, Yad Vashem, Zakynthos (city), Zakynthos (person), Zakynthos International Airport, Zakynthos Marine Park, Zante currant. Expand index (42 more) »
A Zacinto
"A Zacinto" (to Zakynthos) is a pre-Romantic sonnet written by Ugo Foscolo in 1803.
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Administrative regions of Greece
The administrative regions of Greece (περιφέρειες, peripheries) are the country's thirteen first-level administrative entities, each comprising several second-level units, originally prefectures and, since 2011, regional units.
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Agios Nikolaos, Zakynthos
Agios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος) is a small settlement on the island of Zakynthos, Greece.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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Alykes
Alykes (Αλυκές) is a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Arcadia
Arcadia (Αρκαδία, Arkadía) is one of the regional units of Greece.
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Arcesius
In Greek mythology, Arcesius (also spelled Arceisius or Arkeisios; Ἀρκείσιος) was the son of either Zeus or Cephalus, and king in Ithaca.
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Argostoli
Argostoli (Αργοστόλι, Katharevousa: Ἀργοστόλιον) is a town and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Arkadioi
Arkadioi (Αρκάδιοι) was a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Arrowhead
An arrowhead is a tip, usually sharpened, added to an arrow to make it more deadly or to fulfill some special purpose.
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Artemisia, Zakynthos
Artemisia (Αρτεμισία) is a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Bochali
Bochali (Μπόχαλη) is a village and a community in the southern part of the island of Zakynthos.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Catalogue of Ships
The Catalogue of Ships (νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katálogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's Iliad (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy.
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Cephalonia
Cephalonia or Kefalonia (Κεφαλονιά or Κεφαλλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (Κεφαλληνία), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th larger island in Greece after Crete, Evoia, Lesvos, Rhodes and Chios.
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Chrysostomos of Zakynthos
Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos (1890–1958) was the Metropolitan Bishop of Zakynthos during the Second World War, and a key figure in saving the entire, 275-person Jewish population of the island.
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Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.
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Classical Athens
The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athínai) during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508–322 BC) was the major urban center of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.
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Cristoforo Buondelmonti
Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1386 - c. 1430) was an Italian Franciscan priest and traveler, and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world.
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Dardanus
In Greek mythology, Dardanus (Greek: Δάρδανος, Dardanos) was a son of Zeus (in Illyrius) and Electra (daughter of Atlas) and founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad.
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Dionysios Solomos
Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός; 8 April 1798 – 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos.
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Disability benefits
Disability benefits are funds provided from public or private sources to a person who is ill or who has a disability.
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Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
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Elatia
Elatia (Ελάτια) is a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Extermination camp
Nazi Germany built extermination camps (also called death camps or killing centers) during the Holocaust in World War II, to systematically kill millions of Jews, Slavs, Communists, and others whom the Nazis considered "Untermenschen" ("subhumans").
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First Peloponnesian War
The First Peloponnesian War (460–445 BC) was fought between Sparta as the leaders of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies, most notably Thebes, and the Delian League led by Athens with support from Argos.
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Georgios Tertsetis
Georgios Tertsetis (Γεώργιος Τερτσέτης 1800, Zakynthos – 15 April 1874, Athens) was a Greek independence fighter, historian, politician, poet, writer, judge and philosopher.
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Greece
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Heptanese School (literature)
The term Heptanese School of literature (Επτανησιακή Σχολή, literally: "The School of the Seven Islands", also known as the Ionian School) denotes the literary production of the Ionian Island's literature figures from the late 18th century till the end of the 19th century.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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Hull (watercraft)
The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.
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Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιοι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi; Isole Ionie) are a group of islands in Greece.
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Ionian Islands (region)
The Ionian Islands Region (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.
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Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea (Ιόνιο Πέλαγος,, Mar Ionio,, Deti Jon) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea.
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Ithaca
Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.
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Kastro-Kyllini
Kastro-Kyllini (Κάστρο-Κυλλήνη) is a former municipality in Elis, West Greece, Greece.
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Keri, Greece
Keri (Κερί) is a village and a community in the southern part of the island of Zakynthos.
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Kyllini, Elis
Kyllini (Κυλλήνη) is a port town and a community in the municipal unit of Kastro-Kyllini, Elis, Greece.
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Kythira
Kythira (Κύθηρα, also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula.
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Laganas
Laganas (Λαγανάς) is a village and a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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List of rock formations
A rock formation is an isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock outcrop.
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List of settlements in Zakynthos
This is a list of settlements in Zakynthos, Greece.
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Lithakia
Lithakia (Λιθακιά) is a village in the southern part of the island of Zakynthos, Greece.
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Loggerhead sea turtle
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), or loggerhead, is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world.
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Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.
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Ministry of Health (Greece)
The Ministry of Health (Υπουργείο Υγείας), is the government department responsible for managing Greece's health system.
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Mithridatic Wars
There were three Mithridatic Wars between Rome and the Kingdom of Pontus in the 1st century BC.
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Municipalities and communities of Greece
The municipalities of Greece (δήμοι, dímoi) are the lowest level of government within the organizational structure of that country.
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Myrtus
Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, described by Swedish botanist Linnaeus in 1753.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
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Navagio
Navagio Beach (Greek: Ναυάγιο), or Shipwreck Beach, is an exposed cove, sometimes referred to as "Smugglers Cove", on the coast of Zakynthos, in the Ionian Islands of Greece.
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Nikolaos Koutouzis
Nikolaos Koutouzis (Greek: Νικόλαος Κουτούζης; 1741, Zakynthos - 1813, Zakynthos) was a Greek painter, poet and priest who belonged to the Heptanese School of painting.
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Nikolaos Loukanis
Nikolaos Loukanis was a 16th-century Greek Renaissance humanist.
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet, NMBU) is a public university located in Ås, Norway.
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Odysseus
Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, Ὀdysseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixēs), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of Olea europaea; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Pelasgians
The name Pelasgians (Πελασγοί, Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός, Pelasgós) was used by classical Greek writers to either refer to populations that were the ancestors or forerunners of the Greeks, or to signify all pre-classical indigenes of Greece.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Πελοπόννησος, Peloponnisos) is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.
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Piraeus
Piraeus (Πειραιάς Pireás, Πειραιεύς, Peiraieús) is a port city in the region of Attica, Greece.
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Pitch (resin)
Pitch is a name for any of a number of viscoelastic polymers.
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Postal codes in Greece
The Greek postal code system is administered by ELTA (Ελληνικά Ταχυδρομεία, Hellenic Post).
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Prefectures of Greece
During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures (translit) were the country's main administrative unit.
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Regional units of Greece
The 74 regional units (περιφερειακές ενότητες, perifereiakés enóti̱tes, sing.) are administrative units of Greece.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice (Repubblica di Venezia, later: Repubblica Veneta; Repùblica de Venèsia, later: Repùblica Vèneta), traditionally known as La Serenissima (Most Serene Republic of Venice) (Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia; Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta), was a sovereign state and maritime republic in northeastern Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and the 18th century.
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Richard Crawley
Richard Crawley (1840–1893) was a Welsh writer, an academic best known for his translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations (חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, khasidei umót ha'olám "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
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Science Park Zakynthos
Science Park Zakynthos is a Norwegian-Greek educational, research and business collaboration being established on the Greek island of Zakynthos.
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Tar
Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation.
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Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands
The Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands (TEI ION; Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα (Τ.Ε.Ι.) Ιονίων Νήσων) is a fully self-governing higher-educational institute under state supervision, exercised by the Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs.
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Telephone numbers in Greece
This is a list of dialing codes in Greece.
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Teredo navalis
Teredo navalis, the naval shipworm, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Teredinidae, the shipworms.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
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Tolmides
Tolmides, (Greek: Τολμίδης), son of Tolmaeus, was a leading Athenian general of the First Peloponnesian War.
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Trireme
A trireme (derived from Latin: trirēmis "with three banks of oars"; τριήρης triērēs, literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo (6 February 1778 in Zakynthos10 September 1827 in Turnham Green), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, freemason, revolutionary and poet.
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Vasilikos, Zakynthos
Vasilikos (Βασιλικός) is a village and a community in the southeastern part of the municipality and the island of Zakynthos.
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Vehicle registration plates of Greece
Greek vehicle registration plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (e.g. ΑΑΑ-1000) printed in black on a white background.
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Venetian language
Venetian or Venetan (Venetian: vèneto, vènet or łéngua vèneta) is a Romance language spoken as a native language by almost four million people in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue.
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Visual impairment
Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.
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Vrachionas
Vrachionas, also known as Vrakhiónas is the highest peak on the island Zakynthos which is one of the Ionian Islands of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
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Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem (יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
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Zakynthos (city)
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos, Zacìnto) or Zante (Τζάντε, Tzánte, Zante), is a city and a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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Zakynthos (person)
In Greek mythology, Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος) (alternatively Zacynthus) was the son of the legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus.
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Zakynthos International Airport
Zakynthos International Airport "Dionysios Solomos" is an airport in Zakynthos, Greece.
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Zakynthos Marine Park
The National Marine Park of Zakynthos (Εθνικό Θαλάσσιο Πάρκο Ζακύνθου) founded in 1999, is a national park located in Laganas bay, in Zakynthos island, Greece.
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Zante currant
Zante currants, Corinth raisins, or Corinthian raisins, also called simply currants, are dried berries of the small, sweet, seedless grape cultivar 'Black Corinth' (Vitis vinifera).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakynthos
