Monemvasia
Monemvasia is a town and municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located in mainland Greece on a tied island off the east coast of the Peloponnese, surrounded by the Myrtoan Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 31 residents
- Description: coastal settlement in Lakonia, Greece
- Also known as: “Epidaurus Limera”, “Malvasia”, and “Monemvasía”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monemvasia Mosque and Church of Christ Elkomenos.
Monemvasia Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Iolchos07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mosque of Monemvasia is a historical Ottoman religious building located in the lower medieval town of Monemvasia, Peloponnese, Greece. Following Greece's independence in 1830, it was briefly used as a prison.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gefyra and Palia Monemvasia.
Palia Monemvasia
Hamlet
Photo: Lapost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palia Monemvasia is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km north of Monemvasia.
Monemvasia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Monemvasia, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.68738° or 36° 41′ 15″ northLongitude
23.05548° or 23° 3′ 20″ eastPopulation
31Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR MONOpen location code
8G85M3P4+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9089467564OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Monemvasia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Monemvasia”
- Arabic: “مونيمفاسيا”
- Armenian: “Մոնեմվասիա”
- Belarusian: “Манемвасія”
- Bengali: “মোনেমভাসিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Монемвасия”
- Catalan: “Malvasia”
- Catalan: “Menekshe”
- Catalan: “Monembasia”
- Cebuano: “Monemvasía”
- Chinese: “摩尼瓦西亞”
- Chinese: “摩涅姆瓦西亞”
- Chinese: “莫內姆瓦夏”
- Chinese: “莫奈姆瓦夏”
- Czech: “Monemvasia”
- Danish: “Monemvasia”
- Dutch: “Monemvasia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مونيمفاسيا”
- Esperanto: “Monemvasia”
- Finnish: “Monemvasia”
- Finnish: “Monemvasiá”
- French: “Malvoisie”
- French: “Monemvasia”
- French: “Monemvasie”
- French: “Monemvassiá”
- Galician: “Monemvasia”
- Georgian: “მონემვასია”
- German: “Monembasia”
- German: “Monemvasia”
- German: “Monemvassia”
- Greek: “Μαλβαζία”
- Greek: “Μαλβασία”
- Greek: “Μονεμβασία Λακωνίας”
- Greek: “Μονεμβασιά”
- Greek: “Μονεμβασία”
- Greek: “Μονεμβάσια”
- Greek: “Μονοβάσια”
- Hebrew: “מונמבסיה”
- Hungarian: “Monemvaszia”
- Indonesian: “Monemvasia”
- Irish: “Monemvasia”
- Italian: “Malvasia”
- Italian: “Monembasia”
- Italian: “Monemvasia”
- Japanese: “モネンヴァシア”
- Japanese: “モネンバシア”
- Korean: “모넴바시아”
- Latin: “Malvasia”
- Latin: “Monembasia”
- Latin: “Monovasia”
- Lithuanian: “Monemvasija”
- Luxembourgish: “Malvasy”
- Luxembourgish: “Monemvasia”
- Luxembourgish: “Monemvassia”
- Macedonian: “Монемвазија”
- Macedonian: “Монемвасија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monemvasia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monemvasiá”
- Norwegian: “Monemvasia”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “بنفشه”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “بینفشه”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “پنفشه”
- Persian: “مونمواسیا”
- Polish: “Monemvasia”
- Polish: “Monemwasia”
- Polish: “Monemwazja”
- Portuguese: “Monemvasia”
- Romanian: “Monemvasia”
- Russian: “Монемвасия/Монемвазия”
- Russian: “Монемвасия”
- Serbian: “Monemvasija”
- Serbian: “Монемвасија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monemvasija”
- Slovenian: “Monemvazija”
- Spanish: “Monembassia”
- Spanish: “Monemvasia”
- Spanish: “Monemvasía”
- Spanish: “Monemvassia”
- Swedish: “Monemvasia”
- Swiss German: “Monembasia”
- Swiss German: “Monemvasia”
- Swiss German: “Monemvassia”
- Tosk Albanian: “Monemvasia”
- Turkish: “Benefşe”
- Turkish: “Menekşe”
- Turkmen: “Benefşe”
- Ukrainian: “Монемваcія”
- Ukrainian: “Монемвасія”
- Vietnamese: “Monemvassia”
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