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Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of 380 km 2 and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate regional unit within the East Macedonia and Thrace region.
Thasos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a town on the island of Thasos in northern Greece.It is the capital and main town of the island. The town is also called Limenas Thasou or for short just Limenas (Greek: Λιμένας Θάσου, Liménas Thásou, "Harbour of Thasos") to distinguish the town from the island on which it is situated.
Potos (Greek: Ποτός) is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. [2] The village is located in the south of the island, on the coast of the Thracian Sea (the northernmost part of the Aegean Sea) with a population of 788 residents (as of 2021).
Limenaria (Greek: Λιμενάρια, meaning: covelets) is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. [2] The village numbers 2,428 residents (2021 census) and is the second largest settlement on the island of Thasos.
The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes , the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
Prinos (Greek: Πρίνος) is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. [2] The village is located in the northwest of the island, 17.4 km southwest from the island's capital and main port of Limenas, and 21.8 km north of Limenaria (in the south of Thasos). [3]
In tradition, on a hill above the village is located the grave of Sabellius (fl. ca. 215), a priest and theologian banished to the island of Thasos as a heretic. [2] To the west of the village (2.5 km) is the location of a village under the same name (Skala Kallirachi), [3] where the original sixteenth-century village was located, before being abandoned and its residents seeking refuge inland ...
Panagia (Greek: Παναγία) is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. [2] The village is located in the northwest of the island, east of the massif of Mount Ipsarion (1,204 m (3,950 ft)) at an elevation of 300 m (980 ft).