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Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Greek: Ζάκυνθος, romanized: Zákynthos [ˈzacinθos] ⓘ; Italian: Zacinto [dzaˈtʃinto]) or Zante (/ ˈ z æ n t i /, US also / ˈ z ɑː n t eɪ /, [3] [4] Italian:; Greek: Τζάντε, romanized: Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
Zakynthos town as depicted in icon of Agios Haralambos wiping out the plague by Nikolaos Kalergis, 1732. Zakynthos did suffer from serious outbreaks of the plague in 1617, 1646, 1692 and 1728 and also smallpox in 1713, 1748 and 1778. One of the most famous victims of the 1728 plague was the painter and sometime doctor, Hieronymous Plakotos.
Zakynthos (Greek: Ζάκυνθος, romanized: Zákynthos [ˈzacinθos] ⓘ) or Zante (Greek: Τζάντε, romanized: Tzánte), is a city and a former municipality on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Zakynthos, of which it is a municipal unit. [2]
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.
The National Marine Park of Zakynthos (Greek: Εθνικό Θαλάσσιο Πάρκο Ζακύνθου) founded in 1999, is a national park located in Laganas bay, in Zakynthos island, Greece. The park, part of the Natura 2000 ecological network, [ 1 ] covers an area of 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi) and is the habitat of the loggerhead sea ...
Agalas; Agia Marina; Agioi Pantes; Agios Dimitrios; Agios Kirykos; Agios Leontas; Alikanas; Ampelokipoi; Anafonitria; Ano Gerakari; Ano Volimes; Argasi; Bochali; Exo ...
Agios Dimitrios (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος) is a village and a community in the municipal unit Alykes, in the central part of the island Zakynthos, Greece. The community includes the village Drakas. Agios Dimitrios is 2 km south of Meso Gerakari, 5 km west of Vanato, 5 km southeast of Katastari and 9 km west of Zakynthos city.
Navagio Beach (Greek: Παραλία Ναυάγιο, pronounced), or Shipwreck Beach, is an exposed cove, sometimes referred to as "Smugglers Cove", on the coast of Zakynthos, in the Ionian Islands of Greece. Navagio Beach was originally known as Agios Georgios.