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For the Gnostic mythological figure Adamas, see Gnosticism. In the Iliad Adamas is a grandson of Hyrtacus. For the killifish genus, see Fenerbahce (fish).

Adamas
—  Town  —
Adamas Location in Greece
Coordinates: 36°43′30″N 24°26′42″E / 36.725°N 24.445°E / 36.725; 24.445
Country	Greece
Periphery	South Aegean
Prefecture	Cyclades
Island	Milos
Population
- Total	1,100

Adamas or Adamantas (in modern colloquial Greek)(from the Greek αδάμας= "diamond", "invincible") is the harbor town of Milos (or Melos) island. It has a population of 1,100 people.

Highlights:

• The English/French cemetery, used in the years of the Crimean war and also in the two World Wars.
• The 600-year-old church of the Holy Trinity.
• The Mineral museum.

Adamas is the cultural and commercial center of the island.

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Lithuanian

Alternative spellings

• Adomas

Proper noun

Adamas m.

1. A male given name, an equivalent of Adam.

Declension

From Wikispecies

Adamas may mean:

• Adamas Malaise, 1945 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
• Adamas Huber, 1979, synonym of Fenerbahce Özdikmen, Polat, Yılmaz & Yazıcıoğlu, 2006 (Osteichthyes)
• †Adamas Afanasieva, 2000, synonym of †Adamasirad Afanasieva, 2009 (Radiolaria)

References

• Afanasieva, M.S. 2000: Atlas of Paleozoic Radiolaria from the Russian Platform. Nauchnyi Mir, Moscow. [in Russian]
• Afanasieva, M.S. 2009: [New replacement names for the genera Adamas Afanasieva, 2000 and Wonella Afanasieva, 2000 (Radiolaria)]. Paleontologicheskii zhurnal, 2009(1): 107. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal, 43(1): 115. doi: 10.1134/S0031030109010122]