Zakynthos (grc)

Zakynthos

Zakynthos ranks 2,394th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Horten, Bithynia, and San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Memorable people born in Zakynthos include Ugo Foscolo, Dionysios Solomos, and Miltiadis Gouskos. Memorable people who died in Zakynthos include Andreas Vesalius, and Konstantin Aksakov. Zakynthos has been the birth place of many writers, and athletes and the death place of many physicians, and writers. Zakynthos is located in Greece.

Zakynthos or Zante is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands, with an area of 405.55 km2 (156.6 sq mi), and a coastline 123 km (76 mi) 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 Zacynthus, the son of the legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus. Read more on Wikipedia