Mithymna
Mithymna is a town and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of West Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rosa-Maria Rinkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,560 residents
- Description: modern village on the island Lesbos, Greece
- Also known as: “Methymna”, “Míthimna”, “Mólivdhos”, “Molivos”, “Mólivos”, “Molova”, and “Molyvos”
- Historically known as: “Molivo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mithymna Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petras and Stypsi.
Petras
Village
Photo: Mhwater, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Petra is a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform, it is a municipal unit of the municipality of West Lesbos. Petras is situated 4½ km south of Mithymna.
Stypsi
Village
Stypsi or Stipsi, is a village of the municipality of West Lesbos in Greece, which belongs to the Lesbos Prefecture and has a population of 675 permanent residents. Stypsi is situated 8 km southeast of Mithymna.
Mithymna
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lesbos, Lesvos, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
39.36851° or 39° 22′ 7″ northLongitude
26.17373° or 26° 10′ 25″ eastPopulation
1,560Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR MOLOpen location code
8GF8959F+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 5201791646OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Mithymna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميثيمنا”
- Belarusian: “Мітымна”
- Catalan: “Metimna”
- Cebuano: “Mithymna”
- Cebuano: “Míthymna”
- Chinese: “米西姆纳”
- Danish: “Mithymna”
- Dutch: “Mithymna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميتهيمنا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميثيمنا”
- Finnish: “Míthymna”
- French: “Méthymne”
- Georgian: “მითიმნა”
- German: “Mithymna”
- Greek: “Μήθυμνα Λέσβου”
- Greek: “Μήθυμνα”
- Greek: “Μόλυβος”
- Hebrew: “מיתימנה”
- Hebrew: “מיתמנה”
- Indonesian: “Mithymna”
- Italian: “Metimna”
- Italian: “Mithymna”
- Japanese: “ミティムナ”
- Japanese: “メテュムナ”
- Latin: “Methymna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Míthymna”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “مولوه”
- Portuguese: “Metímna”
- Russian: “Митимна”
- Russian: “Моливос”
- Serbian: “Метимна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mitimna”
- Spanish: “Metimna”
- Swedish: “Mithymna”
- Swedish: “Míthymna”
- Tamil: “மிதிம்னா”
- Turkish: “Mitimna”
- Ukrainian: “Мітимна”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mithymna”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bust of Argyris Eftaliotis, Mithymna and ΚΕΠ ΜΗΘΥΜΝΑΣ.
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