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Thasos from space, April 1993 Detailed map of Thasos. Thasos is located in the northern Aegean sea approximately 7 km (4 mi) from the northern mainland and 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-east of Kavala. It is of generally round shape, without deep bays or significant peninsulas.
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.
Athens and Delian League (yellow) shown along the Peloponnesian League and the Persian Empire at the outset of the Peloponnesian War around 431 BC. The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, [1] founded in 478 BC [2] under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting ...
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). The seaside village is a popular tourist resort in the July-August Summer season ...
Map of Egypt showing relevant locations, where known, to the Delian league campaign of 460–454 BC. The Egyptian satrapy of the Persian Empire was particularly prone to revolts, one of which had occurred as recently as 486 BC. [87] [88] In 461 or 460 BC, a new rebellion began under the command of Inaros, a Libyan king living on the border of ...
Limenaria. 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 settlement is a popular tourist destination since the 1960s, with a 1.2 km long strand of beach ...
The Archaeological Museum of Thasos is a museum located in Limenas on the island of Thasos, Eastern Macedonia, Greece. It occupies a house that was built in 1934 and recently extended. Storerooms and workshops have been restored, and are fully operational. These include the shop, the official functions room, the old wing, the prehistoric ...
The region is divided into the Macedonian regional units of Drama, Kavala and Thasos and the Thracian regional units of Xanthi, Rhodope and Evros, which coincide with the territory of the former prefectures, except for Thasos, which was part of the Kavala prefecture. Unlike the former prefectures, the regional units however have very limited ...