Sivas
Sivas is a village in Faistos, Heraklion, Crete and has about 426 residents. Sivas is situated nearby to the village Kouses, as well as near the hamlet Listaros.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 426 residents
- Description: village of Faistos Municipality, Greece
- Also known as: “Síva”, “Sívva”, and “Sivvas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phaistos and Phaistos Disc.
Phaistos
Archaeological site
Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete. Phaistos is situated 3½ km north of Sivas.
Phaistos Disc
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disc of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Phaistos Disc is situated 4 km north of Sivas.
Kamilari
Archaeological site
Photo: Stegop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamilari is a village on the island of Crete, Greece. There is an archaeological site of an ancient Minoan cemetery nearby, the Kamilari Minoan Tholos tomb and a Roman graveyard at the slopes of the Ovgora hill. Kamilari is situated 3½ km northwest of Sivas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kouses and Pitsidia.
Pitsidia
Village
Photo: Rob de Vries, CC BY 2.0.
Pitsidia is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Sivas.
Petrokefali
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petrokefali is a village, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Sivas.
Sivas
Latitude
35.01825° or 35° 1′ 6″ northLongitude
24.80766° or 24° 48′ 28″ eastPopulation
426Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)Open location code
8G762R95+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 5316446146OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
253753Wikidata ID
Q2290806
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Sivas” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Sivas”
- Finnish: “Sívas”
- French: “Sívas”
- German: “Sivas (Tymbaki)”
- German: “Sivas”
- Greek: “Σίβας Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Σίβας Μεσαράς”
- Greek: “Σίβας Πυργιωτίσσης”
- Greek: “Σίβας”
- Greek: “Σίββας”
- Russian: “Сивас”
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