Neapoli
Neapoli is a small town and a former municipality in Lasithi, eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been treated as a municipal unit of Agios Nikolaos.- Type: Town with 2,680 residents
- Description: town in Lasithi, Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Neapoli, Crete”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Metropolitan Church of Megali Panagia and Dreros.
Dreros
Archaeological site
Dreros, also Driros, near Neapoli in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete, is a post-Minoan archaeological site, 16 km northwest of Agios Nikolaos. Known only by a chance remark of the 9th-century Byzantine grammarian Theognostus, archaeology of the site shows Dreros to have been initially colonised by mainland Greeks in the early Archaic Period about the same time as Lato and Prinias.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Limnes and Vrachasi.
Limnes
Village
Limnes is a traditional Cretan small village in Lasithi, Crete, Greece, located 10 km from Agios Nikolaos. It is surrounded by olive trees and mountains. Limnes is situated 3 km east of Neapoli.
Vrachasi
Village
Vrachasi is a village and a former municipality in the Lasithi regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Agios Nikolaos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 63.41 km2. Vrachasi is situated 4 km northwest of Neapoli.
Neapoli
- Category: locality
- Location: Agios Nikolaos, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.25688° or 35° 15′ 25″ north
Longitude
25.60621° or 25° 36′ 22″ east
Population
2,680
Elevation
262 metres (860 feet)
Open location code
8G777J44+QF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Neapoli” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيابولي (كريت)”
- Arabic: “نيابولي”
- Asturian: “Neapoli”
- Catalan: “Neàpoli”
- Cebuano: “Neápoli”
- Dutch: “Neapolis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيابولى”
- Finnish: “Neapoli”
- Finnish: “Neápoli”
- French: “Neapoli”
- French: “Neápoli”
- German: “Neapoli”
- Greek: “Νεάπολη Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Νεάπολη”
- Greek: “Νεάπολις”
- Italian: “Neapoli”
- Japanese: “ネアポリ (ラシティ県)”
- Moksha: “Нэаполи”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Neápoli på Kreta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Neápoli”
- Portuguese: “Neapoli”
- Portuguese: “Neápolis (Lasíti)”
- Portuguese: “Neápolis”
- Russian: “Неаполис”
- Russian: “Неаполь”
- Slovak: “Neapoli”
- Spanish: “Neapolis”
- Spanish: “Neápolis”
- Swedish: “Neápoli”
- Ukrainian: “Неаполіс”
- Urdu: “نیاپولی، کریٹ”
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