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Plaka is a village located in the Apokoronas region of the northwest coast of the island of Crete, Greece. It is located in Chania regional unit. Plaka is two kilometres from Almyrida, a resort which it overlooks. Situated high up the hill there are views over the Mediterranean Sea.
Ramsay [5] believed that both cities were adjacent to each other and this may explain why Pliny thought the name of Tripolis had previously been Apollonos. He more generally puts it in the Plain of Philadelphia, in the Lykos River Valley. [6] Apollonos Hieron was known for its temple, [7] [8] and is mentioned by Pliny, [9] [10] who
Plaka is on the northeast slope of Acropolis, between Syntagma and Monastiraki square.Adrianou Street (running north and south) is the largest and most central street in Plaka and divides it into two areas: the upper level, - Ano Plaka - located right under the Acropolis and the lower level - Kato Plaka - situated between Syntagma and Monastiraki.
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Plaka (official name: Milos) is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group. [2] It is perched on the top of large rock, overlooking the gulf of Milos. No cars can enter the village because of the narrow spaces between walls and buildings. Motorbikes, mopeds and the like are the only usable vehicles. Population 902 (2021). [1]
Plaka (Greek: Πλάκα) is a village in the northeasternmost part of the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Moudros. The island of Imbros in Turkey is just 24 km northeast. It is situated somewhere in the middle of the straight line between Troy and Mount Athos.
Apollonos Hydreium (Plin. vi. 26; It. Anton. ) or Apollinopolis or Apollonopolis ( Greek : Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις ), was an ancient city of Egypt that stood upon the high road from Coptos , in the Thebaid , to Berenice on the Red Sea , and was a watering station for the caravans in their transit between those cities.
One of these would have been a higher and the other a lower kouros, i.e. one would have stood 5.5 metres high without a plinth and the other would have stood the same height with a plinth. From the same marble quarry at Melanes came the roughly 9 metre high 25 ton Colossus of the Naxians , which was completed and set up on the island of Delos ...