Nafpaktos
Nafpaktos or Naupactus, is a town and a former municipality in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, situated on a bay on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, 3 km west of the mouth of the river Mornos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 13,000 residents
- Description: town in Greece
- Also known as: “Epachtos”, “Epakhtos”, “Lepanto”, “Naupactus”, and “Naupaetus”
- Postal code: 30300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fethiye Mosque and Botsaris.
Fethiye Mosque
Museum
Photo: Protnet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fethiye Mosque is a former mosque in Nafpaktos, Greece. Completed in 1499 during the Ottoman era, the mosque was abandoned during the 1820s; and was repurposed for cultural use.
Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios
Office
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece. Its seat is the town of Nafpaktos in southeastern Aetolia-Acarnania, and occupies the municipality of Nafpaktia and the municipal unit of Parakampylia of the Agrinio municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Platanitis and Velvina.
Platanitis
Village
Platanitis is a settlement belonging to the community of Molykreio in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. Platanitis is situated 5 km southwest of Nafpaktos.
Velvina
Hamlet
Velvina is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Nafpaktos in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. According to the 2021 census, it had 43 inhabitants. Velvina is situated 6 km west of Nafpaktos.
Kastraki
Village
Kastraki is a village in Phocis, Greece, part of the municipal unit Efpalio. It is near the left bank of the river Mornos and 3 km from the Gulf of Corinth. It is 3 km west of the village of Efpalio and 6 km northeast of the town of Nafpaktos. Kastraki is situated 6 km northeast of Nafpaktos.
Nafpaktos
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Nafpaktia, West Central Greece, West Greece, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.39261° or 38° 23′ 33″ northLongitude
21.82875° or 21° 49′ 44″ eastPopulation
13,000Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR NPKOpen location code
8GC39RVH+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 139501068OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Venetian—“Nafpaktos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Epahtoi”
- Albanian: “Lepanto”
- Arabic: “نافباكتوس”
- Arabic: “ناوباكتوس، أيتوليا كي أكارنانيا”
- Armenian: “Նաֆպակտոս”
- Asturian: “Naupactus”
- Azerbaijani: “Navpakt”
- Basque: “Naupaktos”
- Belarusian: “Лепанта”
- Belarusian: “Наўпакт”
- Belarusian: “Нафпактас”
- Bulgarian: “Навпакт”
- Catalan: “Lepant”
- Catalan: “Naupacte”
- Catalan: “Naupactus”
- Cebuano: “Náfpaktos”
- Chinese: “納夫帕克托斯”
- Chinese: “纳夫帕克托斯”
- Chinese: “诺帕克都”
- Chinese: “諾帕克特斯”
- Czech: “Nafpaktos”
- Danish: “Naupaktos”
- Dutch: “Nafpaktos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نافباكتوس”
- Esperanto: “Nafpaktos”
- Finnish: “Náfpaktos”
- Finnish: “Naupaktos”
- French: “Lépante”
- French: “Naupacte”
- Galician: “Nafpaktos”
- German: “Nafpaktos”
- Greek: “Έπαχτος”
- Greek: “Λεπάντο”
- Greek: “Ναύπακτος”
- Hebrew: “נפפקטוס”
- Hungarian: “Naupactus”
- Hungarian: “Naupaktosz”
- Hungarian: “Návpaktosz”
- Indonesian: “Nafpaktos”
- Italian: “Lepantini”
- Italian: “Lepanto”
- Japanese: “ナフパクトス”
- Korean: “나프파크토스”
- Korean: “나프팍토스”
- Latin: “Naupactus”
- Malagasy: “Nafpaktos”
- Malayalam: “നൗപാക്തോസ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nafpaktos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Návpaktos”
- Norwegian: “Nafpaktos”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “اینه بحتی”
- Persian: “نافپاکتوس”
- Polish: “Nafpaktos”
- Portuguese: “Lepanto”
- Romanian: “Naupactus”
- Russian: “Лепанто”
- Russian: “Навпакт”
- Russian: “Навпактос”
- Russian: “Нафпактос”
- Serbian: “Нафпактос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Naupakt”
- Silesian: “Nafpaktos”
- Slovak: “Nafpaktos”
- Slovenian: “Lepant”
- Slovenian: “Nafpaktos”
- Spanish: “Lepanto”
- Spanish: “Naupacto”
- Swedish: “Naupaktos”
- Swiss German: “Naupaktos”
- Tamil: “நவ்ப்பாக்ட்டஸ்”
- Tamil: “நாஃபக்டோஸ்”
- Tosk Albanian: “Naupaktos”
- Turkish: “Inebahtı”
- Turkish: “İnebahtı”
- Ukrainian: “Навпакт”
- Urdu: “ناوپاکتوس”
- Venetian: “Lepanto”
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