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  • Schiza

    Schiza (Greek: Σχίζα) is a Greek island off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese. According to 2011 census, the island is uninhabitants. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Methoni in Messenia. It is the largest island of the Mes…

  • Salamina (city)

    Salamina City (Greek: Σαλαμίνα, Salamis (Σαλαμίς, old-fashioned), or Kulluri (Arvanitika: Kuluri)) is the largest town and a former municipality on Salamis Island in Greece.

  • Osiou Gregoriou monastery

    Osiou Grigoriou (Gregory's) monastery (Greek: Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου) is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks seventeenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.

  • Voras Mountains

    The Voras Mountains (Greek: Όρος Βόρας; also Boras), also known as Nidže (Macedonian:  Ниџе , Turkish: Nice Dağı) are a mountain range situated on the border between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. It separates the Pella regional unit on the G…

  • Naousa, Paros

    Naousa (Greek: Νάουσα) is a village in the Cyclades. It is located in the northeastern corner of the island of Paros, and it has a population of 2,870.

  • Museum of Greek Folk Art

    The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki, which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained…

  • Municipal Gallery of Athens

    The Municipal Gallery of Athens is a museum in Athens, Greece. It houses a rich collection of nearly 3,000 works from leading 19th- and 20th-century Greek artists. Formerly located on Peiraios Street on Eleftherias (Koumoundourou) Square, in October…

  • Moni Toplou

    Moni Toplou (Greek: Μονή Τοπλού) is a 15th-century monastery located in a dry and barren area in the Lasithi regional unit, on the eastern part of the island of Crete in Greece. It is about 6 km north of the village of Palekastro and 85 km east of A…

  • Milies

    Milies (Greek: Μηλιές) is a village and a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit. It is a traditional Greek mountain vill…

  • Messenian Gulf

    The Messenian Gulf (Greek: Μεσσηνιακός Κόλπος, Messiniakós Kólpos) is a sea that is part of the Ionian Sea. The gulf is circumscribed by the southern coasts of Messenia and the southwestern coast of the Mani peninsula in Laconia. Its bounds are Vene…

  • Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

    The Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre was the site of the shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue is located in Markópoulo, on the outskirts of the eastern suburbs of Athens. It has a seating capacity of 4,000, thou…

  • Mandritsa

    Mandritsa (Bulgarian: Мандрица, "small dairy"; Albanian: Mandrica or Mandricë; Greek: Μανδρίτσα) is a village in southernmost Bulgaria, part of Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province. It is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria.

  • Lycée Léonin

    The Lycée Léonin (Greek: Λεόντειο Λύκειο) is the oldest independent educational institution in Athens, Greece. The school belongs to the Catholic Church and is run by the Community of the Marist Brothers (Frères Maristes), a group of Catholic monks …

  • Loutro, Chania

    Loutro (Greek: Λουτρό) (Greek: "Bath") lies on the south coast of Chania regional unit in west Crete, between Chora Sfakion and Agia Roumeli, the exit to the Samaria Gorge. The whole area is known as Sfakia.

  • Lissos

    Lissos ("Λισσός" in Greek) is an ancient city in south-west Crete, in Agios Kirikos area, near the small village of Sougia, 70 km south of Chania.

  • Lechaio

    Lechaio (Greek: Λέχαιο) is a village in the municipal unit of Assos-Lechaio in Corinthia, Greece. It is situated on the coast of the Gulf of Corinth, 8 km west of Corinth and 12 km southeast of Kiato. The Greek National Road 8 passes through the tow…

  • Lazaretto Island

    Lazaretto Island, (Greek: Λαζαρέτο, also Lazareto, formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios) is located two nautical miles northeast of Corfu. The island has an area of 17.5 acres (71,000 m2) and is administered by the Greek National Tourist Organization.…

  • Kymo

    Kymo (Greek: Κυμώ), also called Koumeli (Greek: Κούμελη), is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Libyan Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete.

  • Kremasta (lake)

    Lake Kremasta (Greek: Λίμνη Κρεμαστών) is the largest artificial lake in Greece. The construction of Kremasta Dam was completed in 1965 concentrating waters from four rivers: Acheloos, Agrafiotis, Tavropos and Trikeriotis. The water that is accumula…

  • Kattavia

    Kattavia (also Greek: Κατταβιά or Italian: Cattavia) is a small village located on the southernmost tip of the island of Rhodes.

  • Katara Pass

    The Katara Pass or Metsovo Pass (Greek: Πέρασμα της Κατάρας) is a mountain pass in the Pindus mountains in northern Greece. It is 5 km northeast of the town Metsovo. Situated on the border of Epirus (Ioannina regional unit) and Thessaly (Trikala reg…

  • Karaağaç railway station

    The Karaağaç Railway Station (Turkish: Karaağaç Garı), or before 1971 the Edirne Railway Station (Turkish: Edirne Garı) was the name of the former railway station in Edirne, located 4 km (2.5 mi) south-west of the city.

  • Jewish Museum of Greece

    The Jewish Museum of Greece (Greek: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος) is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavroulakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews.

  • Goulandris Natural History Museum

    The Goulandris Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kifisia, a northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was founded by Angelos Goulandris and Niki Goulandris in 1965 in order to promote interest in the natural sciences, to raise the awareness o…

  • Gennadi

    Gennadi (Greek: Γεννάδι) is a Greek village, seat of the municipal unit of South Rhodes, on the island of Rhodes, South Aegean region.

  • Gavdopoula

    Gavdopoula (Greek: Γαυδοπούλα, [ɣavðoˈpula]) is an islet located north-west of its larger neighbour, Gavdos, in the Libyan Sea. It is located to the south of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania.

  • Greek Research and Technology Network

    The Greek Research and Technology Network or GRNET (Greek: Εθνικό Δίκτυο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογίας, ΕΔΕΤ) is the national research and education network of Greece. GRNET develops and provides advanced services of national and international internet ac…

  • Falakro

    Falakro Oros (Greek: Φαλακρό όρος, English: "Bald mountain", Turkish: "Bozdağ") is a mountain in the Drama regional unit, eastern Greek Macedonia, northern Greece. The elevation of its highest summit, Profitis Ilias, is 2232 meters above the sea lev…

  • Eleutherna

    Eleutherna (Greek: Ἐλεύθερνα), also called Apollonia (Greek: Ἀπολλωνία), was an ancient city-state in Crete, Greece, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno regional unit. Archaeologists excavated the site, located on a narrow northern sp…