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Vrisa

Vrisa is a village in the southern part of Lesbos island approximately 50 km from . The village is named after one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesbos during the ten-year Trojan War.
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  • Type: Village with 617 residents
  • Description: village in Lesbos, Greece
  • Also known as: “Vrisia” and “Vrissá”
  • Postal code: 81300

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vatera and Polichnitos.

Village
Photo: CoStef, Public domain.
is an 8-kilometer long sandy beach in the southern part of Lesbos island. The name comes from βάτα, in reference to prickly bushes that blocked the old mule-drive access.

Town
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is a town and a former municipality on the island of , , . Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality West Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. is situated 5 km north of Vrisa.

Vrisa

Latitude
39.03979° or 39° 2′ 23″ north
Longitude
26.19974° or 26° 11′ 59″ east
Population
617
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
8GF825QX+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369732799
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
251651
Wiki­data ID
Q15275787
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Vrisa” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Vrísa”
  • Dutch: “Vrisa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤريسا”
  • Finnish: “Vrísa”
  • German: “Vrisa”
  • Greek: “Βρίσα Λέσβου”
  • Greek: “Βρίσα”
  • Irish: “Vrisa”
  • Russian: “Вриса”
  • Spanish: “Vrisa”
  • Swedish: “Vrísa”
  • Turkish: “Vrisa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vrisa”. Photo: CoStef, Public domain.