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Zakynthos
Zakynthos
( ) or
Zante
(; from
Venetian
) is a
Greek
island in the
Ionian Sea
. It is the third largest of the
Ionian Islands
. Zakynthos is a separate
regional unit
of the
Ionian Islands
region, and its only
municipality
. It covers an area of and its coastline is roughly in length. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or
Pelasgian
in origin. In
Greek mythology
the island was said to be named after
Zakynthos
, the son of a legendary
Arcadian
chief
Dardanus
.
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