Kladas
Kladas is a small village which is located about 5 kilometers north of the city of Sparta and belongs to the municipality of Sparta. The village was named after Krokodeilos Kladas, a medieval Greek military leader.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 477 residents
- Description: village in Laconia, Greece
- Also known as: “Kladas, Greece”, “Kládha”, “Kladhas”, and “Kladhás”
- Postal code: 23100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Artemis Orthia and Archaeological Museum of Sparta.
Temple of Artemis Orthia
Ruins
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC0.
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, an Archaic site devoted in Classical times to Artemis, was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek city-state of Sparta, and continued to be used into the fourth century CE, when all non-Christian worship was banned during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire. Temple of Artemis Orthia is situated 3 km south of Kladas.
Archaeological Museum of Sparta
Museum
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Sparta, founded in 1875, is a museum in Sparta, Greece that houses thousands of artifacts from the ancient Acropolis of Sparta and the rest of the municipality of Laconia. Archaeological Museum of Sparta is situated 3½ km south of Kladas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sparta and Magoula.
Sparta
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sparta is a city and municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. It lies at the site of ancient Sparta within the Evrotas Valley. The municipality was merged with six nearby municipalities in 2011, for a total population of 32,786, of whom 17,773 lived in the city.
Magoula
Suburb
Magoula is a district of modern Sparta city in Laconia, Greece. It is the former seat of the Mystras municipality. It is basically the evolution of a small village that has been attached to the growing Sparta city. Magoula is situated 4 km southwest of Kladas.
Mystras
Village
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mystras is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Kladas.
Kladas
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sparti, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.10757° or 37° 6′ 27″ northLongitude
22.4306° or 22° 25′ 50″ eastPopulation
477Elevation
226 metres (741 feet)Open location code
8G944C5J+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 1748715146OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
259693Wikidata ID
Q11159042
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Kladas” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kladas, Greece”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كلاداس”
- French: “Kladás”
- Greek: “Κλαδάς Λακωνίας”
- Greek: “Κλαδάς”
- Irish: “Kladas”
- Russian: “Кладас”
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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 “Kladas”. Photo: LeoAs, CC BY-SA 3.0.