Zaforas
Zaforas is a small Greek island in the southern part of the Dodecanese chain, about 40 kilometers south of the island Astypalaia. It has a population of 1 according to the Greek census of 2021.- Type: Island
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Nisides Sofrana”, “Nisídhes Sofrána”, “Nisídhes Sofránas”, “Nisídhes Zafora”, “Nisídhes Zaforas”, “Safrana Islands”, “Sophrana Nisia”, “Zafrana”, and “Zefýri”
Zaforas
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Zaforas” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ζεφύρη”
- Arabic: “زافوراس”
- Cebuano: “Nisídes Sofrána”
- Chinese: “扎福拉斯岛”
- Chinese: “扎福拉斯島”
- Finnish: “Zaforás”
- French: “Zafora”
- German: “Sofrana-Inseln”
- German: “Zafora”
- German: “Zaforas”
- Greek: “Ζαφόρα Δωδεκανήσων”
- Greek: “Ζαφοράς Αστυπάλαιας”
- Greek: “Μεγάλο Σοφράνο”
- Greek: “Νησίδες Σοφράνα”
- Hebrew: “איי זופרנה”
- Macedonian: “Зафора”
- Persian: “زافورا”
- Swedish: “Nisídes Sofrána”
- Turkish: “Safran Adası”
- Western Armenian: “Զաֆորաս”
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