Mount Pentelicus
Mount Pentelicus or Pentelikon is a mountain in Attica, Greece, situated northeast of Athens and southwest of Marathon. Its highest point is the peak Pyrgari, with an elevation of 1,109 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 1,109 metres
- Description: tall mountain and mountain range northeast of Athens, Greece
- Also known as: “Pendéli Óros”, “Pendelikón Óros”, “Penteli”, “Pentelicus”, and “Penteliko Mountain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Davelis Cave and Ruins of ancient theater of Icarion Aegeidas (Attica).
Davelis Cave
Cave
Photo: NikosFF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Davelis Cave, also known as the Cave of Penteli, is a cave on the southwestern slope of Mount Penteli, northeast of Athens. It received its modern nickname, "the cave of Davelis", because of a popular association with the 19th-century brigand Christos Davelis.
Ruins of ancient theater of Icarion Aegeidas (Attica)
Archaeological site
Icaria or Ikaria, also known as Icarium or Ikarion, was a deme of ancient Attica on the northeastern slopes of Mount Pentelikon. It holds pride of place due to its prominence in Greek mythology as the place where Icarius, or Ikarios received the god Dionysus, who taught him the art of making wine.
German military cemetery of Dionysus - Rapentose 1939-1945
Monument
Photo: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 3.0.
German military cemetery of Dionysus - Rapentose 1939-1945 is a monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nea Penteli and Drosia.
Nea Penteli
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nea Penteli is a small municipal unit - village in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Penteli, of which it is a municipal unit.
Drosia
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Drosia is a town in the East Attica regional unit and a suburb of the Athens agglomeration, Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dionysos, of which it is a municipal unit.
Penteli
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Penteli is a village and a municipality in the North Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece. Belonging to the Athens rural area, it takes its name from Mount Pentelicus.
Mount Pentelicus
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Kifisia, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.08168° or 38° 4′ 54″ northLongitude
23.88272° or 23° 52′ 58″ eastElevation
1,109 metres (3,638 feet)Open location code
8GC53VJM+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 8743814104OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Venetian—“Mount Pentelicus” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πεντελικόν”
- Arabic: “بنتلي (جبل)”
- Arabic: “بينديلي”
- Basque: “Penteliko”
- Bulgarian: “Пентели”
- Catalan: “Mont Pentèlic”
- Catalan: “Pentèlic”
- Cebuano: “Mount Pentelicus”
- Chinese: “彭代利孔山”
- Chinese: “彭代利山”
- Dutch: “Pentelikon”
- Dutch: “Pentelikón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بينديلى”
- Esperanto: “Monto Penteliko”
- Finnish: “Pentéli”
- Finnish: “Pentelikon”
- French: “Pentelique”
- French: “Pentélique”
- German: “Pendeli”
- German: “Penteli”
- German: “Pentelikon”
- Greek: “Πεντέλη”
- Greek: “Πεντελικό όρος”
- Greek: “Πεντελικό Όρος”
- Hebrew: “פנטלי”
- Hebrew: “פנטליקון”
- Italian: “Monte Pentelico”
- Japanese: “ペンテリコン山”
- Japanese: “ペンテリコ山”
- Japanese: “ペンテリ山”
- Ladin: “Penteliko Mountain”
- Latin: “Pentele”
- Latin: “Pentelicum”
- Latin: “Pentelicus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pentelikon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pendéli”
- Norwegian: “Pentelikon”
- Polish: “Pentelejkon”
- Polish: “Pentelikon”
- Portuguese: “Monte Pentélico”
- Portuguese: “Pentélico”
- Russian: “Брилеттос”
- Russian: “Пенделикон”
- Russian: “Пентеликон”
- Slovak: “Pendeli”
- Slovak: “Pentelé”
- Slovenian: “Pentelik”
- Spanish: “Monte Pentelico”
- Spanish: “Monte Pentélico”
- Spanish: “Pentelico”
- Spanish: “Pentélico”
- Swedish: “Pentelikon”
- Turkish: “Penteli Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Пентелі”
- Ukrainian: “Пентелікон”
- Urdu: “کوہ پیدیلی”
- Venetian: “Monte Pentelico”
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