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Thásos


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Thasos
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Thásos

Thasos

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physical
Description
There were Neolithic & Early Bronze Age settlements here; was occupied by Tracian tribe, Sintes, before Greeks arrived; was famous in Antiquity for its gold mines; fortified by Greeks from 7th cen. BC; ruled by Crusaders 1204 CE, then Turks.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

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