Nea Alikarnassos
Nea Alikarnassos is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Heraklion, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,900 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Néa Alikarnasós”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” and Heraklion Archaeological Museum.
Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
Aerodrome
Photo: Florian Waßmann, CC BY 3.0.
Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis" is the primary airport on the island of Crete, Greece, and the country's second busiest airport after Athens International Airport.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a museum located in Heraklion on Crete. It is one of the largest museums in Greece, and the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of Crete.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heraklion and Prassas.
Heraklion
Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heraklion or Iraklio is the major city and capital of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands. Its archaeological museum holds the remains of the 4000-year-old Minoan civilization, which centred on the nearby palace of Knossos, with its Minotaur legend.
Prassas
Village
Prassa is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on Crete. Prassas is situated 4 km southeast of Nea Alikarnassos.
Agia Irini Spilia
Hamlet
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Agia Irini Spilia is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km south of Nea Alikarnassos.
Nea Alikarnassos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.34209° or 35° 20′ 32″ northLongitude
25.15791° or 25° 9′ 29″ eastPopulation
12,900Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR NALOpen location code
8G7785R5+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 5104716934OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Nea Alikarnassos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ني أليكارناسوس، إراكليون”
- Arabic: “نيا آليكارناسوس”
- Arabic: “نيا هاليكارناسوس”
- Asturian: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- Cebuano: “Néa Alikarnassós”
- Dutch: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيا هاليكارناسوس”
- Finnish: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- Finnish: “Néa Alikarnassós”
- French: “Nea Alicarnassos”
- French: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- French: “Néa Alikarnassós”
- French: “Nouvelle-Halicarnasse”
- German: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- Greek: “Άγιος Ιωάννης Νέας Αλικαρνασσού”
- Greek: “Κοινότητα Νέας Αλικαρνασσού”
- Greek: “Νέα Αλικαρνασσός Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Νέα Αλικαρνασσός”
- Hungarian: “Néa Alikarnaszósz”
- Italian: “Nea Alikarnassos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Néa Alikarnassós”
- Portuguese: “Néa Alicarnassós”
- Swedish: “Néa Alikarnassós”
- Urdu: “نیا آلیکارناسوس”
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