Ziros
Ziros is a village in the municipality Sitia, Lasithi regional unit, Crete, Greece. It was the seat of government for the former municipality Lefki. The village of Ziros is 30 kilometers south of Sitia on the Sitia - Piskokefalo - Epano Episkopi - Chandras - Ziros road.- Type: Village with 393 residents
- Description: human settlement in Greece
- Also known as: “Ziros, Lasithi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chandras and Praisos.
Praisos
Locality
Praesus or Praisos, also Prasus or Prasos, was a Greek city in ancient Crete. Strabo reports that it belonged to the Eteocretes, and contained the temple of the Dictaean Zeus, for Mount Dicte was in the territory of Praesus. Praisos is situated 7 km northwest of Ziros.
Karýdi
Village
Karydi, officially Καρύδιον, is a village in the highlands of east Crete, Greece, part of the municipal unit Itanos. Under the Kallikratis Programme of 2011 it was made a local community. Karýdi is situated 7 km northeast of Ziros.
Ziros
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Siteia, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.07531° or 35° 4′ 31″ north
Longitude
26.13951° or 26° 8′ 22″ east
Population
393
Elevation
569 metres (1,867 feet)
Open location code
8G7834GQ+4R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Ziros” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “济罗斯”
- Dutch: “Ziros, Lasithi”
- Finnish: “Zíros”
- French: “Zíros”
- German: “Ziros”
- Greek: “Ζήρος Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Ζίρος Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Ζίρος”
- Greek: “Ζύρος Λασιθίου”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zíros”
- Russian: “Зирос”
- Spanish: “Ziros de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Zíros Lasithíou”
- Spanish: “Ziros”
- Spanish: “Zíros”
- Spanish: “Ζίρος Λασιθίου”
- Spanish: “Ζίρος”
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