See also:

• ANDROS, or ANDRO
• ANDROS, SIR EDMUND (1637-1714)

ANDROS, or ANDRO  , an See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

archipelago, the most northerly of the See also:

• CYCLADES

Cyclades, 6 m . S.E. of See also:

• EUBOEA (pronounced Evvia in the modern language)

Euboea, and about 2 M . N. of Tenos; it forms an eparchy in the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• GREECE

Greece . It is nearly 25 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, and its greatest breadth is 10 m . Its See also:

• SURFACE

surface is for the most See also:

• PART

part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys . See also:

• ANDROS, or ANDRO
• ANDROS, SIR EDMUND (1637-1714)

Andros, the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, contains about 2000 inhabitants . The ruins of Palaeopolis, the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient capital, are on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west coast; the See also:

• TOWN

town II . Ipossessed a famous See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple, dedicated to Bacchus . The island has about 18,000 inhabitants . The island in ancient times contained an Ionian See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, perhaps with an admixture of Thracian See also:

• BLOOD

blood . Though originally dependent on See also:

• ERETRIA (mod. Aletria)

Eretria, by the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. it had become sufficiently prosperous to send out several colonies to Chalcidice (See also:

• ACANTHUS (the Greek and Latin name for the plant, connected with &sib a sharp point)

Acanthus, Stageirus, Argilus, Sane) . In 48o it supplied See also:

• SHIPS

ships to See also:

• XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

Xerxes and was subsequently harried by the Greek See also:

• FLEET

fleet .

Though enrolled in the Delian See also:

• LEAGUE

League it remained disaffected towards See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of a See also:

• CLERUCHY (Gr. KAripovXia, from KX'gpos, a lot, e'xav, to have)

cleruchy . In 411 Andros proclaimed its freedom and in 408 withstood an Athenian attack . As a member of the second Delian League it was again controlled by a See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison and an See also:

• ARCHON (apywv, ruler)

archon . In the Hellenistic See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period Andros was contended for as a frontier-See also:

• POST

post by the two See also:

• NAVAL

naval See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of the See also:

• AEGEAN

Aegean See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea, See also:

• MACEDONIA

Macedonia and See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt . In 333 it received a Macedonian garrison from See also:

• ANTIPATER (398?-319 B.C.)

Antipater; in 308 it was freed by . See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy I . In the Chremonidean See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War (266-263) it passed again to Macedonia after a See also:

• BATTLE

battle fought off its shores . In 200 it was captured by a combined See also:

• ROMAN

Roman, Pergamene and Rhodian fleet, and remained a See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of See also:

• PERGAMUM, or PERGAMTS (mod. Bergama)

Pergamum until the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of that kingdom in 133 B.C . Before falling under See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• RULE

rule, Andros was from A.D . 1207 till 1566 governed by the families See also:

• ZENO

Zeno and Sommariva under Venetian See also:

• PROTECTION

protection .