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Patras ( Greek: Πάτρα, romanized :Pátrapronounced [ˈpatra] ⓘ; Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Πάτραι; [ a ] Latin: Patrae[ b ]) is Greece 's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km (134 mi) west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount ...
Kavala. Chania. Mytilene. Corfu (city) Rhodes (city) Agrinio. Veria. The lowest level of census-designated places in Greece are called oikismoi ( settlements) and are the smallest continuous built-up areas with a toponym designated for the census. Although some urban CDPs form individual cities and towns (labeled in bold) the majority of them ...
Note that there were a great number of Greek cities in the ancient world. In this list, a city is defined as a single population center. These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world, these were autonomous city-states, although the list is not limited to poleis but includes also settlements that were not sovereign city-states ...
A wildfire burning in northeastern Greece for 11 days has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday, as firefighters ...
Minutes later, the 55-year-old's shop on a plot between warehouses, fields and a wood seller in Vrilissia, 10 km (6 miles) from the city centre, had been devoured by Greece's worst fire this year.
A man walks in front of a destroyed house in the flooded village of Palamas, Greece, on Sept. 8, 2023. (Yorgos Karahalis / dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images file)
Categories by city in Greece (17 C) + Cities in ancient Greece (11 C, 155 P) A. Agrinio (2 C, 24 P) Alexandroupolis (1 C, 24 P) Argos, Peloponnese (2 C ...
Authorities said 15 people were injured, mostly due to smoke inhalation, as the blaze reached outlying sections of a suburb about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city center. Greece’s National ...