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Cinara

Κίναρος

Cinara or CINARUS (Κίναρος: Zinari), a small island in the Aegaean sea, NE. of Amorgos, named after the artichoke (κίναρα) which it produced. (Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 22; Mel. 2.7; Athen. 2.70; Col. 10.235.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.