Moires
Moires 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 Faistos, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 6,380 residents
- Description: town in Herakleion, Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Mires”, “Moírai”, and “Moírais”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galia and Kastelli.
Galia
Village
Photo: PaBoMaSaMaHu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galia is a village on the island of Crete, Greece, located 58 kilometres from Heraklion, and is administratively part of the municipal unit of Moires in the municipality of Faistos. Galia is situated 3 km north of Moires.
Kastelli
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kastelli is a village, which is situated 4 km east of Moires.
Petrokefali
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petrokefali is a village, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Moires.
Moires
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Faistos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.05182° or 35° 3′ 7″ northLongitude
24.87278° or 24° 52′ 22″ eastPopulation
6,380Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)Open location code
8G763V2F+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2209711592OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
256842Wikidata ID
Q1016694
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Moires” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مويري، إراكليون”
- Arabic: “مويري”
- Cebuano: “Moíres”
- Chinese: “米雷斯”
- Dutch: “Mires”
- Dutch: “Moires”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مويرى”
- Finnish: “Moíres”
- French: “Mires”
- French: “Míres”
- German: “Mires”
- German: “Moires”
- Greek: “Μοίραι”
- Greek: “Μοίρες Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Μοίρες”
- Irish: “Moires”
- Italian: “Mires”
- Italian: “Moires”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Míres”
- Russian: “Мире”
- Serbian: “Mojres”
- Serbian: “Мојрес”
- Swedish: “Moíres”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Moires”. Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.