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NAXOS

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or NAXIA, a considerable town, and capital of the Isle of Naxos, opposite the Isle of Paros, with a castle and two archbishops' sees, the one Greek and the other Latin. The greater part of the inhabitants are Greeks. Long. 25° 51'. E. Lat. 37° 8'. N.