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Places

  • Naxos (Crete)
    Naxos (Crete)

    Naxos or Naxus was an ancient town of Crete, according to the Scholiast celebrated for its sharpening stones. Some classicists have doubted the existence of this city....
    , ancient Greek city in Crete
  • Naxos (Sicily)
    Naxos (Sicily)

    Naxos or Naxus , was an ancient city of Sicily, on the east coast of the island between Catana and Messana . It was situated on a low point of land at the mouth of the river Acesines , and at the foot of the hill on which was afterwards built the city of Tauromenium ....
    , ancient Greek city in Sicily
    • Giardini-Naxos
      Giardini-Naxos

      Giardini Naxos is a comune in the Province of Messina on the island of Sicily in Italy. Today it is a popular seaside-resort....
      , modern city on the site of the above
  • Naxos Island, island in the Cyclades group
  • Naxos (city)
    Naxos (city)

    Naxos City is the capital of the Greece island, Naxos Island. It has an area of 126.957 km?. The municipality is located on the west side of Naxos Island in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea....
    , Naxos City on the island of Naxos
  • Duchy of Naxos (Duchy of the Archipelago
    Duchy of the Archipelago

    The Duchy of the Archipelago or also Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean was a maritime state created by Republic of Venice interests in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, in the aftermath the Fourth Crusade, centered on the islands of Naxos and Paros....
    ) - a maritime state created by the Venetians between 1207-1579


Battles

  • Siege of Naxos (499 BC)
    Siege of Naxos (499 BC)

    The Siege of Naxos was a battle fought between the Persian Empires under Megabates with aid from the Ionia led by Aristagoras and the Naxian exiles against the island of Naxos ....
  • Siege of Naxos (490 BC)
  • Battle of Naxos
    Battle of Naxos

    At the Battle of Naxos the new Athens fleet of Chabrias decisively defeated the Spartans. This was the beginning of Athens's recovery of its Aegean Sea hegemony following its loss in the Peloponnesian War....


Other

  • Naxos radar detector
    Naxos radar detector

    The FuG 350 Naxos radar detector was a World War II German counter measure to centimetric radar produced by a cavity magnetron.Telefunken built a simple detector named "Naxos" that could pick up 10 cm / 3 GHz H2S radar transmissions, and a more sophisticated detector named "Korfu" with greater range and accuracy....
     - device used by German
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
     signal corps in World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  • Naxos Records - classical music record label
    • Naxos World
      Naxos World

      Naxos World is record label imprint of Naxos Records.It specializes in world music. Its releases include re-issues of material originally recorded and issued in the long playing gramophone record era....
       - an imprint
      Imprint

      In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
       of Naxos Records
  • Naxos disease - Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
    Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia

    Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a type of nonischemic cardiomyopathy that involves primarily the right ventricle. It is characterized by hypokinetic areas involving the free wall of the right ventricle, with fibrofatty replacement of the right ventricular myocardium, with associated arrhythmias originating in the right ventric...
  • Ariadne auf Naxos
    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal....
     - opera by Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....