Pylos

[ pee-laws; English pahy-los, -lohs ]

noun

1. Greek name of Navarino.

Pylos

/ ˈpaɪlɒs /

noun

1. a port in SW Greece, in the SW Peloponnese; scene of a defeat of the Spartans by the Athenians (425 bc ) during the Peloponnesian War and of the Battle of Navarino Italian nameNavarino Modern Greek namePílos See Navarino

Example Sentences

Six of the people on board were picked up by another yacht sailing in the area and transported to Pylos, where one woman was transferred to a hospital in the southern city of Kalamata.

From Seattle Times

In June, a battered trawler smuggling up to 750 people from Libya to Italy sank southwest of Pylos, in one of the worst Mediterranean migrant disasters in years.

From Washington Times

The Greek coast guard rescued 104 people but hundreds of migrants drowned after an overloaded boat capsized and sank in international waters off Greece's Pylos on June 14, in one of Europe's deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.

From Reuters

Matloob, 43, is among hundreds of migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt who are presumed dead after their overcrowded fishing trawler, that set sail from Libya for Italy, sank off the coast of Pylos in international waters on June 14.

From Reuters

When the Adriana capsized and sank 47 miles southwest of Pylos, in international waters within Greece's search-and-rescue jurisdiction, it was carrying between 400 and 750 migrants mostly from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, the U.N. refugee agency says.

From Reuters