Naxos (disambiguation)
Naxos is a Greek island.
Naxos may also refer to:
Places
- Greece
- Naxos (city), a town and former municipality on the island of Naxos
- Naxos (regional unit), a Greek government division
- Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, one of two municipalities within the regional unit
- Naxos Island National Airport
- Duchy of Naxos (Duchy of the Archipelago), a maritime state created by the Venetians between 1207-1579
- Naxos (Crete), an ancient Greek city in Crete
- Italy
- Naxos (Sicily), an ancient Greek city in Sicily
- Giardini Naxos, a modern city on the site of the above
Battles
- Siege of Naxos (499 BC), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Greco-Persian Wars
- Siege of Naxos (490 BC), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Naxos (376 BC), an engagement in the Cyclades during the Boeotian War
Music
- Naxos (company), a music and audio publishing company
- Naxos Quartets, a series of string quartets by Peter Maxwell Davies
- Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss
Other
- Naxos (mythology), eponym of the island Naxos
- Naxos disease, Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
- Naxos radar detector, a German World War II countermeasure
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