Eu·ro·pa (y
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n.► Greek Mythology. A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus, who had assumed the form of a white bull, and by him the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon.
► One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the sixth in distance from the planet. It was originally sighted by Galileo.
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