Polichnitos
Polichnitos is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality West Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,760 residents
- Description: village on Lesbos, Greece
- Postal code: 81300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Agios Georgios, Polichitos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vrisa and Vatera.
Vrisa
Village
Photo: CoStef, Public domain.
Vrisa is a village in the southern part of Lesbos island approximately 50 km from Mytilene. The village is named after one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesbos during the ten-year Trojan War. Vrisa is situated 5 km south of Polichnitos.
Vatera
Village
Photo: CoStef, Public domain.
Vatera 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. Vatera is situated 7 km south of Polichnitos.
Apothikes
Hamlet
Photo: Gkagialaris, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Apothikes is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km northwest of Polichnitos.
Polichnitos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lesbos, Lesvos, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
39.08039° or 39° 4′ 49″ northLongitude
26.18242° or 26° 10′ 57″ eastPopulation
2,760Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)Open location code
8GF835JJ+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 347268318OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
254917Wikidata ID
Q1848794
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Polichnitos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوليخنيتوس”
- Cebuano: “Polichnítos”
- Chinese: “波利奇尼托斯”
- Dutch: “Polichnitos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پوليتشنيتوس”
- Finnish: “Polichnítos”
- French: “Polichnítos”
- German: “Polichnitos”
- Greek: “Πολίχνιτος Λέσβου”
- Greek: “Πολιχνίτος”
- Italian: “Polichnitos”
- Japanese: “ポリフニトス”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Polikhnítos”
- Russian: “Полихнитос”
- Spanish: “Polichnitos”
- Swedish: “Polichnítos”
- Turkish: “Poliçnitos”
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