Salamis Island

Salamis or Salamina is the largest island in the , about two kilometres from the coast of Athens' port of and about 16 km west of center.
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  • Island
  • …has 39,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 126 metres (413 feet)
  • Description: island in the Saronic Gulf near Piraeus, Greece
  • Also known as
    “Mint of Salamis”
    “Nisi Salamina”
    “Salamis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Salamina and Church of Agios Minas, Salamina.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ampelakia and Selinia.
is a town and a former municipality of Salamis Island, .
is a village, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Salamis Island.
or Kοullοuri is the largest city and a former municipality on Island in . is situated 3 km north of Salamis Island.

Salamis Island

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Latitude
37.94183° or 37° 56′ 31″ north
Longitude
23.50433° or 23° 30′ 16″ east
Open location code
8G95WGR3+PP
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Salamis Island” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kulluri”
  • Albanian: “Salamis”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σαλαμίς”
  • Arabic: “سالاميس”
  • Arabic: “سَلاميز”
  • Armenian: “Սալամին”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salamin adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salamin”
  • Basque: “Salamina”
  • Belarusian: “Саламін”
  • Belarusian: “Салямін”
  • Breton: “Enez Salamis”
  • Breton: “Salamina”
  • Breton: “Salamis”
  • Bulgarian: “Саламина”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Salamina”
  • Catalan: “Illa_de_Salamina”
  • Catalan: “Kulúri”
  • Catalan: “Salamina”
  • Cebuano: “Nisí Salamína”
  • Chinese: “萨拉米斯岛”
  • Chinese: “薩拉米斯島”
  • Croatian: “Salamina”
  • Czech: “Salamina”
  • Czech: “Salamína”
  • Czech: “Salamis”
  • Danish: “Salamina”
  • Danish: “Salamis”
  • Dutch: “Eiland Salamis”
  • Dutch: “Salamis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالاميس”
  • Esperanto: “Salamino”
  • Esperanto: “Salamiso”
  • Estonian: “Salamina saar”
  • Estonian: “Salamína saar”
  • Estonian: “Salamina”
  • Finnish: “Salamis (kunta)”
  • Finnish: “Salamis”
  • French: “Coulouri”
  • French: “Salamine”
  • Galician: “Illa de Salamina”
  • Galician: “Illa Salamina”
  • Galician: “Salamina”
  • Georgian: “სალამინი”
  • German: “Koulouri”
  • German: “Salamina”
  • German: “Salamis”
  • Greek: “Nisí Salamína”
  • Greek: “Nísos Salamína”
  • Greek: “Nísos Salamís”
  • Greek: “Salamína”
  • Greek: “Νησί Σαλαμίνα”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Σαλαμίνα”
  • Greek: “Νησός Σαλαμίς”
  • Greek: “Σαλαμίνα”
  • Hebrew: “סאלאמיס”
  • Hebrew: “סלמיס”
  • Hungarian: “Szalamisz”
  • Ido: “Insulo Salamis”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Salamis”
  • Indonesian: “Salamis”
  • Irish: “Oileán Shalamas”
  • Irish: “Salamas”
  • Italian: “Salamina”
  • Japanese: “サラミース島”
  • Japanese: “サラミーナ島”
  • Japanese: “サラミス”
  • Japanese: “サラミス島”
  • Japanese: “サラミナ島”
  • Korean: “살라미나”
  • Korean: “살라미나섬”
  • Korean: “살라미스 섬”
  • Kurdish: “girava Salamîs”
  • Latin: “Salamis”
  • Lithuanian: “Salaminas”
  • Macedonian: “Саламина”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salamína”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salamis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salamína”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salamis”
  • Norwegian: “Salamis”
  • Ossetian: “Саламин”
  • Persian: “سالامیس”
  • Polish: “Salamina”
  • Portuguese: “Salamina”
  • Romanian: “Salamina”
  • Romanian: “Salamis”
  • Russian: “Саламин”
  • Scots: “Salamis Island”
  • Serbian: “Salamina”
  • Serbian: “Саламина”
  • Serbian: “Саламис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salamina”
  • Slovak: “Salamina”
  • Slovak: “Salamína”
  • Slovenian: “Salamina”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Salamina”
  • Spanish: “Isla Salamina”
  • Spanish: “Salamina”
  • Swedish: “Salamis”
  • Swiss German: “Salamis”
  • Tamil: “சலாமிஸ் தீவு”
  • Thai: “เกาะซาลามิส”
  • Turkish: “Salamis Adası”
  • Turkish: “Salamis”
  • Ukrainian: “Саламін”
  • Ukrainian: “Тримифунт”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ سالامیس”
  • Uzbek: “Salamis oroli”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Salamis”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Salamis”
  • Western Armenian: “Սալամինա”

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