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  • Drosia

    Drosia (Greek: Δροσιά, meaning "dew", before 1947: Ρωσσοχώρι - Rossochori) is a suburban town in Attica, Greece.

  • Cassope

    Cassope (Ancient Greek: Κασσώπη - Kassōpē, also Κασσωπία - Kassōpia and Κασσιόπη - Kassiopē) was an ancient Greek city in Epirus, today in the Preveza regional unit. Cassope is situated on the south-east slopes of the Zalongo mountain, near the vill…

  • Cape Maleas

    Cape Maleas (also Cape Malea; Greek: Ακρωτήριον Μαλέας, colloquially Καβομαλιάς, Cavomalias) is a peninsula and cape in the southeast of the Peloponnese in Greece. To distinguish it from the cape, the peninsula is sometimes referred to as "Epidavros…

  • Basileiades

    Basileiades is one of the most historic Greek machine building companies and the largest in its field in the country (as well as one of the most important Greek companies) during the second half of the 19th century. It was founded in Piraeus in 1859…

  • Archaeological Museum of Eleusis

    The Archeological Museum of Eleusis is a museum in Eleusis, Attica, Greece. The museum is located inside the archaeological site of Eleusis. Built in 1890, by the plans of the German architect Kaverau, to keep the findings of the excavations, and af…

  • Arachthos (river)

    The Arachthos (Greek: Άραχθος) is a river in eastern Epirus, Greece. Its source is in the Pindus mountains, near the town Metsovo (Ioannina regional unit). Its upper course is known as Metsovitikos. From its confluence with the Dipotamos near the vi…

  • Antipsara

    Antipsara (Greek: Αντίψαρα) is a small, Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Antipsara had 4 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. It lies about 3 km (2 mi) west of the larger island Psara, from which its name is derived. Geographic conditions make i…

  • Altar of Zeus Agoraios

    The Altar of Zeus Agoraios (meaning Zeus of the Agora) is a 4th-century BC altar located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens, constructed from white marble, 9 m deep and 5.5 m wide.

  • Allchar deposit

    Allchar deposit (alternative spellings Alsar deposit, Alšar deposit or Alshar deposit) is a low-temperature hydrothermal gold–arsenic–antimony–thallium deposit in southern Macedonia. For some time, the thallium-rich part of the deposit was mined. Th…

  • Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel

    The Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel is an undersea road tunnel across the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf in western Greece. It links Epirus and the city of Preveza on the north shore of the gulf with the cape of Aktio (Actium) in Aetolia-Acarnania, in Ce…

  • Agios Nikolaos, Chalkidiki

    Agios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος, meaning Saint Nicholas) is a village located 120 kilometers south-east from Thessaloniki on the Chalkidiki peninsula in Macedonia, Greece.

  • Agia Eirini Gorge

    Agia Eirini Gorge (Greek Φαράγγι Αγίας Ειρήνης) is located in the south-west of the island of Crete, Greece, in Lefka Ori. The gorge starts near the village of Agia Eirini and it ends near the village of Sougia, on the south coast. It is 8 kilometre…

  • Ptelea, Evros

    Ptelea (Greek: Πτελέα) is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trigono. In 2001 its population was 477. It is located on the right bank of the river Evros, where it forms the border w…

  • Zominthos

    Zominthos (Greek: Ζώμινθος, alternative spellings Ζόμινθος or Ζόμιθος) is a small plateau in the northern foothills of Mount Ida (Psiloritis), οn the island of Crete. Zominthos is roughly 7.5 kilometers west of the village of Anogia, on the path fro…

  • Galatas, Troizina

    Galatas (Greek: Γαλατάς), is a town located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of Troizinia-Methana, which belongs to the Islands regional unit. It is situated on the coast, opposite the isla…

  • Vilia

    Vilia (Greek: Βίλια) is a village and a former municipality of West Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Mandra-Eidyllia, of which it is a municipal unit.

  • Vasiliki, Lasithi

    Vasiliki is the name of a village in the municipality of Ierapetra, in the prefecture of Lasithi, on Crete, and the name of the nearby Minoan archeological site.

  • Tripoli Airport (Greece)

    Tripoli Airport (ICAO: LGTP) is a small military airport situated in Tripoli, Greece, that started operating in 1973. It has a single lighted runway (02/20). It is mostly used by the Hellenic Air Force.

  • Tomaros

    Tomaros (Greek: Τόμαρος, also Ολύτσικας - Olytsikas or Tmaros) is a mountain in southwestern Ioannina regional unit, Greece. Rising to the south of the archaeological site of Dodona, it is part of the Pindus mountain range. Its maximum elevation is …

  • Strongyli Megistis

    Strongyli Megistis (Greek: Στρογγυλή Μεγίστης), also called plainly Strongyli or Ypsili, is a Greek islet which lies in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, about five nautical miles south-east of the island of Kastellorizo. The island is about 1.5 kilome…

  • Southern Sporades

    Southern Sporades (Greek Nóties Sporádes) are Greek islands situated between the Cyclades and Turkey. They correspond to the Dodecanese plus a few northern islands (especially Samos and Ikaria). Also included by some geographers are the islands of C…

  • Slavyanka (mountain)

    Slavyanka (Bulgarian: Славянка, "Slavic woman") or Orvilos (Greek: Όρβηλος), formerly known as Alibotuş (from Turkish) (English: Alibotush) and Kitka Planina (Китка планина), is a mountain located on the border of southwestern Bulgaria and northernm…

  • Skala Eresou

    Skala Eresou (Greek: Σκάλα Ερεσού) is a seaside village on the island of Lesbos Greece, part of the community of Eresos.

  • Sigri (village)

    Sigri is a small fishing village near the western tip of Lesbos Island. Its name derives from the Greek word for security, based on the fact that it has a safe harbour. Sigri has a Turkish castle, built in 1746 during the Ottoman occupation, which l…

  • Serres Municipal Stadium

    The Serres Municipal Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Serres, Greece.It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Panserraikos and Ethnikos Gazoros.The stadium holds 9,500, was built in 1926 and renovated numerous…

  • Sapientza

    Sapientza or Sapienza (Greek: Σαπιέντζα) is a Greek island off the southern coast of the Peloponnese, near the city of Methóni. It is administratively part of the municipality of Pylos-Nestor, in Messenia. The 2011 census reported a population of tw…

  • Railway Museum of Thessaloniki

    The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, a municipality of the city of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A (French: Gare Militaire) of the …

  • Railway Museum of Athens

    The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) in 1978. It is currently located at 4 Siokou Street, next to the mainline from Athens to Inoi. The museum has a collection of items related to the history …

  • Radomir (peak)

    Radomir (Bulgarian: Радомир, Greek: Καλαμπάκα, Kalabaka) is a peak on the Bulgarian–Greek border. At 2,031 metres (6,663 ft) it is the highest peak in the Belasica (Greek: Béles or Kerkíni) range.

  • Pythion

    Pythion (Greek: Πύθιον) or Pythium was an ancient city of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, and forming a Tripolis with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Doliche. Pythion derived its name from a temple of Apollo P…

  • Pisoderi

    Pisoderi (Greek: Πισοδέρι) is a village 17 km west of Florina, Greece.Nearby,5 khm, is the ski resort Vigla.

  • Oxeia

    Oxeia (Greek: Οξεία) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. As of 2011, it had no resident population. It is the chief island in the southern group (the Ouniades) of the Echinades, part of the Ionian Islands. Oxeia possesses the highest point in the E…

  • Notia

    Nótia (Greek: Νότια, formerly Νώτια; Megleno-Romanian: Nânti or Nânta;) is a village in the Exaplatanos municipal unit of the Pella regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece.