Kos

also Cos K0103900 (kŏs, kôs) An island of southeast Greece in the northern Dodecanese Islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Kos, an inlet of the Aegean Sea on the southwest coast of Turkey. Hippocrates founded a medical school on the island in the fifth century bc. Kos became part of modern Greece in 1947.

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(kəʊs) n, pl kos (Units) an Indian unit of distance having different values in different localities. It is usually between 1 and 3 miles or 1 and 5 kilometres. Also called: coss [from Hindi kōs]

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n (Placename) an island in the SE Aegean Sea, in the Greek Dodecanese Islands: separated from SW Turkey by the Kos Channel; settled in ancient times by Dorians and became famous for literature and medicine. Pop: 30 947 (2001). Area: 282 sq km (109 sq miles)

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n. one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean, off the SW coast of Turkey. 19,987; 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).

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kos - (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localitiescosslinear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length

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(kŏs, kôs), Lat. Cos, island (1991 pop. 26,379), 111 sq mi (287 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; 2d largest of the DodecaneseDodecanese
, Gr. Dhodhekánisos, island group (1991 pop. 163,476), c.1,035 sq mi (2,680 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, between Asia Minor and Crete, comprising the greater part of the group known as the Southern Sporades.
..... Click the link for more information. , near the Bodrum peninsula of Turkey. Although it rises to c.2,870 ft (875 m) in the southeast, the island is mostly low-lying. Fishing, sponge diving, and tourism are important industries. Grain, tobacco, olive oil, and wine are produced, and cattle, horses, and goats are raised. Kós has mineral deposits and several sulfur springs. The island's main town is Kós (1991 pop. 14,714), situated on the northeast shore. In ancient times the island was controlled in turn by Athens, Macedon, Syria, and Egypt. A cultural center, it was the site of a school of medicine founded in the 5th cent. B.C. by Hippocrates. Kós later enjoyed great prosperity as a result of its alliance with the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, which valued the island as a naval base. The island became part of modern Greece in 1947.

K’os

(also, kos, kes, and kus), an Azerbaijani percussion instrument; a two-sided drum, a type of nagara.

Kos

, Cos an island in the SE Aegean Sea, in the Greek Dodecanese Islands: separated from SW Turkey by the Kos Channel; settled in ancient times by Dorians and became famous for literature and medicine. Pop.: 30 947 (2001). Area: 282 sq. km (109 sq. miles)

KOS

Acronym	Definition
KOS➣Knowledge System
KOS➣Knowledge Organization Structure
KOS➣Kill on Sight (gaming)
KOS➣Keepers of Souls (gaming)
KOS➣Knowledge Organization System
KOS➣Keeping Ourselves Safe (New Zealand)
KOS➣Knowledge of Self (song)
KOS➣Keep on Smiling
KOS➣Kids Over Shoulder
KOS➣Kiss on Sight (gaming)
KOS➣Knights of Solamnia (DragonLance fictional organization)
KOS➣Kohler Operating System
KOS➣Kernel Operating System
KOS➣Key Operated Switch
KOS➣King of Suicide (gaming)
KOS➣Key Operated Selector
KOS➣Knights of Siberys (gaming, Dungeons & Dragons)

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noun (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities

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