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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 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.
The extent of the area called Plaka has evolved over time. [2] [10] Plaka was developed mostly around the ruins of Ancient Agora of Athens. [11] It is the oldest district of Athens and has been continuously inhabited from the neolithic to the present day. [10] As a result, Plaka contains monuments from all periods of the city's history.
The area around Plaka was at first a seasonal dwelling for inhabitants of Agios Ypatios and Palaiopoli who had farm land in the area. After 1823 several farmers began to live there permanently and established a settlement. Conze who visited the area in 1858 found only a few isolated huts, therefore he did not mark the village in his map.
Plaka (Greek: Πλάκα) is a village in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia, Greece. It is 1 km south of Soulos, 3 km northeast of Thoknia, 3 km southwest of Nea Ekklisoula and 4 km northwest of Megalopoli. The Greek National Road 76 (Megalopoli - Andritsaina - Krestena) passes east of the village.
The first written mentions of Flers appear at the end of the twelfth century as Flers (1164–1179) or Flex (1188–1221). Some authors think that the name of the town derives from the German toponym Hlaeri, meaning wasteland or common grazing land, while others suggest an origin in the German Fliessen, from the Dutch vliet or the Latin fluere Latin Fluere, indicating a waterflow, basin or marsh.
The 14th-century church of Notre Dame had a dome (dated 1612), the only example of a Gothic dome in France. The whole building was destroyed in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy . Before the French Revolution , Valognes was the residence of more than a hundred families of distinguished birth and fortune, and was for a long time afterwards the ...
10–148 m (33–486 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Vernon ( French pronunciation: [vɛʁnɔ̃] ; Norman : Vernoun ) is a commune in the French department of Eure , administrative region of Normandy , northern France .