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  • Plastiras Dam

    The Plastiras Dam (Greek: Φράγμα Πλαστήρα) is a concrete arch dam in Karditsa regional unit, Greece that impounds the Tavropos (Megdovas) River, creating an artificial lake respectively called the Lake Plastiras.

  • Phourni

    Phourni (Greek: Φουρνί, also Fourni) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan cemetery in Crete.

  • Pheia (Elis)

    Pheia (Ancient Greek: Φειά, also Φειαί - Pheiai) was a small town and a port in Elis in the ancient country of Pisatis. It was built in a natural bay at today's Agios Andreas, Katakolo. It was destroyed in the 6th century. It was located on the isth…

  • Voreino

    Voreino (Greek: Βορεινό) is a village and a community in the Pella regional unit, northern Greece. The community consists of the villages Voreino, Neochori and Pefkoto. It is situated near Aridea at the foot of the Voras Mountains.

  • Petrades

    Petrades is the easternmost point of mainland Greece. It is located south of the community of Pythio. The community was affected by the floods of Evros which lasted from February 17 to March 8, 2005. Turkey is to the south and to the east. Forests a…

  • Pertouli

    Pertouli is a small mountain village within the province of Trikala in Greece and is situated at an altitude of 1,150 metres on the central part of the Pindos mountain range.

  • Peristeri (island)

    Peristeri (Greek: Περιστέρι, "pigeon") is an islet close to the northern coast of Crete, in the Perama district of the Geropotamos municipality, in Rethymno regional unit.

  • Pente Pigadia

    Pente Pigadia (Greek: Πέντε Πηγάδια, "Five Wells", before 1971: Μπρίγκα - Brigka) is a settlement in the municipal unit of Filippiada in the northern part of the Preveza regional unit in Greece. It is part of the community of Kleisoura. Pente Pigadi…

  • Peiros

    The Peiros (Greek: Πείρος) is a river in the central and the northwestern parts of Achaea, Greece. The river is known locally under several names including Kamenitsa (Καμενίτσα), Mellas (Μέλλας), Pieros (Πίερος), Nezeritiko (Νεζερίτικο), Prevedos (Π…

  • Paximada

    Paximada (Greek: Παξιμάδα, "rusk") is the northernmost island of the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Gianysada, and Paximadaki.

  • Papadoplaka

    Papadoplaka (Greek: Παπαδόπλακα) is a natural reef islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between cape Lithino and cape Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the ancient capital…

  • Ozeros

    Lake Ozeros (Greek: Οζερός, Λίμνη Οζερού) is a lake located west of Agrinio. The lake is formed from the waters of the Acheloos river, flowing from the northwest. The lake has a surface of ca. 10 km2 and an average depth of 8-10 m, but this varies g…

  • Omonia metro station

    Omonoia station is an underground station under the Omonoia square of Athens, used by Athens Metro lines 1 and 2. The first station opened 1895 but had been completely redesigned until 1930 as a Metro station.

  • Oligyrtos

    Oligyrtos (Greek: Ολίγυρτος) is a mountain located at the junction of Arcadia, Corinthia and Argolis in the northeastern Peloponnese in Greece. The mountain diagonally stretches from southwest to northeast, with about 35 km length and 15 to 20 km br…

  • Nisoplaka

    Nisoplaka (Greek: Νησοπλάκα, "island rock") is a small islet off the coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea.

  • Moni Gonia Monastery

    Moni Gonia Monastery, Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panaghia Odigitria is an orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari and some 26 km from Chania, on the coast of the south-east Rodopos peninsula in Crete, Greece, overlooki…

  • Megdovas

    The Megdovas (Greek: Μέγδοβας) also known as Tavropos (Greek: Ταυρωπός), is a river that flows through the Karditsa and Evrytania regional units, Greece.

  • Megara Gulf

    The Megara Gulf (Greek: Κόλπος Μέγαρων Kolpos Megaron) is a gulf that is in the northern part of the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. The total length is approximately 20 km long from north east to west and about 6 to 10 km wide from north to south. …

  • Medousa, Xanthi

    Medousa (Greek: Μέδουσα, Bulgarian: Мемково - Memkovo) is a settlement in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece. It is part of the Thermes community.

  • Mavros Vrachos

    Mavros Vrachos (Greek: Μαύρος Βράχος, "black rock"), is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete.

  • Mavronisi

    Mavronisi (Greek: Μαυρονήσι, "black island") is a small islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete and in the Libyan Sea.

  • Mavrochori

    Mavrochori (Greek: Μαυροχώρι(οv) meaning "black town"; formerly Mavrobon, Μαύροβον; Macedonian: Маврово) is a village in Greece near Kastoria on the shores of Kastoria lake which was in existence at least from 1380 and is denoted, under the name Mav…

  • Makroulo

    Makroulo (Greek: Μακρουλό, "long"), is an uninhabited Greek islet, located south of cape Goudero on the coast of Lasithi, eastern Crete, in the Libyan Sea.

  • Makrochori

    Makrochori (Greek: Μακροχώρι, before 1928: Κωνομπλάτη - Konomplati) is a village in the Kastoria regional unit in West Macedonia, Greece.

  • Lygkos

    Lygkos (Greek: Λύγκος), also transliterated as Lyngos or Lygos, is a remote mountain range in the eastern Ioannina and the western Grevena regional unit in northwestern Greece. It is a part of the Pindus mountain range. Its highest point is the Avgo…

  • Lychnostatis Open Air Museum

    Lychnostatis Open Air Museum is a museum in Hersonissos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It is an autonomous private foundation, established in July 1992, based on private collection owned by ophthalmologist Yiorgos Markakis.

  • Loutro (island)

    Loutro (Greek: Λουτρό) is a rocky islet in the gulf of Loutro on the southwest coast of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet can be found close to the end of the Mouri cape. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Sfakia. The coastal villa…