Megara
Megara is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens.
- Type: City with 23,000 residents
- Description: city in western Attica, Greece
- Also known as: “Megara Nisea”, “Megare”, “Megarense”, “Mégaride”, “Megaro”, “Megary”, “Migara Nisea”, “Μεγαρα”, “Μέγαρα Αττικής”, “Μεγαρίς”, “Мегари”, “מגרה”, “ميغارا، أتيكي”, and “墨伽拉”
- Postal code: 19100
Places of Interest
Highlights: Archaeological Museum of Megara and Theagenes Fountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pachi and Nea Peramos.
Megara
Latitude
37.99659° or 37° 59′ 48″ north
Longitude
23.3445° or 23° 20′ 40″ east
Population
23,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GR MGR
Open location code
8G95X8WV+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Megara” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሜጋራ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μέγαρα”
- Arabic: “ميغارا”
- Armenian: “Մեգարա”
- Asturian: “Megara”
- Azerbaijani: “Meqara”
- Azerbaijani: “Meqаrа”
- Basque: “Megara”
- Belarusian: “Мегары”
- Breton: “Megara”
- Bulgarian: “Мегара”
- Catalan: “Megara”
- Catalan: “Mègara”
- Cebuano: “Megara”
- Cebuano: “Mégara”
- Chinese: “迈加拉”
- Chinese: “邁加拉”
- Croatian: “Megara”
- Czech: “Megara”
- Dutch: “Megara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مى”
- Esperanto: “Megara”
- Finnish: “Megara”
- Finnish: “Mégara”
- French: “Mégare”
- Galician: “Mégara, Grecia”
- Georgian: “მეგარა”
- German: “Megara”
- Greek: “Mégara”
- Greek: “Μέγαρα”
- Hebrew: “מגארה”
- Hungarian: “Megara”
- Hungarian: “Mégara”
- Ido: “Megara”
- Indonesian: “Megara”
- Italian: “Megara”
- Japanese: “メガラ”
- Korean: “메가라”
- Latin: “Megara”
- Latvian: “Megara”
- Lithuanian: “Megara”
- Macedonian: “Мегара”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Megara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mégara”
- Norwegian: “Megara”
- Persian: “مگارا”
- Polish: “Megara”
- Portuguese: “Mégara”
- Romanian: “Megara”
- Russian: “Мегара”
- Scots: “Megara”
- Serbian: “Megara”
- Serbian: “Мегара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Megara”
- Sicilian: “Megara”
- Slovak: “Megara”
- Slovenian: “Megara”
- Spanish: “Megara”
- Spanish: “Mégara”
- Swedish: “Megara”
- Swiss German: “Megara”
- Tamil: “மெகாரா”
- Turkish: “Megara”
- Ukrainian: “Мегара”
- Urdu: “میگارا”
- Uzbek: “Megara shahri”
- Vietnamese: “Megara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Megara”
- Western Armenian: “Մեղարա”
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Places to explore: Κουρκούρια and Stikas.
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Highlights: ΔΗΜΑΡΧΕΙΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΩΝ and Πλατεία.
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