large island in the Aegean Sea, off the E coast of Greece: 1,411 sq mi (3,654 sq km)
See Euboea in American Heritage Dictionary 4
An island of central Greece in the Aegean Sea east of the mainland. It was settled by Ionian and Thracian colonists and was later controlled by Athens, Rome, Byzantium, Venice, and Turkey before becoming part of Greece in 1830.