id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2244 Thasos - Wikipedia .html text/html 5332 690 71 Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island, geographically part of the North Aegean Sea, but administratively part of the Kavala regional unit, Macedonia. Around 650 BC, or a little earlier, Greeks from Paros founded a colony on Thasos.[9] A generation or so later, the poet Archilochus, a descendant of these colonists, wrote of casting away his shield during a minor war against an indigenous Thracian tribe, the Saians.[10] Thasian power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the Thasians owned gold mines even more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between 200 and 300 talents. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2244.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2244.txt