Palaiochori
Palaiochori is a village on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. It is situated on a mountainside 12 km NW from the town of Plomari. The church of the village was built in 1864 and is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.- Type: Village with 314 residents
- Description: village in Lesbos, Greece
- Also known as: “Palaiochori, Lesbos”, “Palaiochorion”, “Palaiokhóri”, “Palaiokhórion”, and “Paleochori”
- Postal code: 81200
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plomari and Agios Isidoros.
Plomari
Town
Photo: CoStef, Public domain.Agios Isidoros
Hamlet
Photo: CoStef, Public domain.Palaiochori
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lesbos, Lesvos, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.99977° or 38° 59′ 59″ north
Longitude
26.31939° or 26° 19′ 10″ east
Population
314
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
Open location code
8GC8X8X9+WQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Palaiochori” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Palaiochórion”
- Dutch: “Palaiochori, Lesbos”
- Finnish: “Palaiochóri (Lesbos)”
- Finnish: “Palaiochóri”
- Greek: “Παλαιοχώρι Λέσβου”
- Greek: “Παλαιοχώρι”
- Irish: “Palaiochori”
- Russian: “Палеохори”
- Swedish: “Palaiochórion”
- Turkish: “Paleohori (Midilli)”
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