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Minoa

Μινώα

Minoa (Μινώα).

1.

A small island in front of Nisaea, the port of Megara. [For details, see MEGARA]

2.

A promontory of Laconia, S. of Epidaurus Limera. [EPIDAURUS LIMERA]

3.

Another name of the island of Paros. [PAROS]

4.

A city of Sicily, usually called Heracleia Minoa. [HERACLEIA MINOA.]

5.

A town in the island of Amorgos. [AMORGOS]

6.

A town in the island of Siphnos. [SIPHNOS]

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.