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Kirra

Kirra is a village in Phocis, . It is part of the municipal unit of , to which it is adjacent. Kirra is the point where the Pleistos river meets the Gulf of Iteas, a bay of the .
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  • Type: Village with 1,400 residents
  • Description: village in Phocis, Greece
  • Also known as: “Agios Nikolaos”, “Kirra, Phocis”, and “Xeropígadho”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cirrha and Tower of Kirra.

Archaeological site
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Kirra was a town in ancient Phocis on the coast, which served as the harbour of . Pausanias erroneously supposes that was a later name of the Homeric Crissa.

Castle
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Itea and Chrisso.

Photo: Photoshop Photomerge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a seaside town in the Phocis region of . It is the old port-town of the nearby temple in . There is a lot of Bauxite mining in the area and this remains the primary source of economic activity for the city.

Village
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is a village in Phocis, . The modern village sits north of the ancient town of Crissa, a powerful city-state of ancient Greece which gave its name to the Crissaean plain and the Crissaean Gulf and lies in the southwestern foothills of . is situated 5 km north of Kirra.

Village
is a town and a former municipality in the southern part of Phocis, . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit. is situated 7 km east of Kirra.

Kirra

Latitude
38.42941° or 38° 25′ 46″ north
Longitude
22.44553° or 22° 26′ 44″ east
Population
1,400
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8GC4CCHW+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 286620318
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
259720
Wiki­data ID
Q3554821
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kirra” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيررا، فوكيس”
  • Arabic: “كيررا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kira (Fokida)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kira”
  • Basque: “Krisa”
  • Catalan: “Cirrha”
  • Catalan: “Crissa”
  • Cebuano: “Kírra”
  • Chinese: “基拉 (古希臘)”
  • Chinese: “基拉”
  • Danish: “Kirra”
  • Dutch: “Kirra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرا”
  • Finnish: “Kírra”
  • French: “Ágios Nikólaos”
  • French: “Kirra”
  • French: “Kírra”
  • German: “Kirra”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Νικόλαος Φωκίδος”
  • Greek: “Κίρρα Φωκίδας”
  • Greek: “Κίρρα Φωκίδος”
  • Greek: “Κίρρα”
  • Italian: “Cirra”
  • Persian: “کیرا، فوکیس”
  • Romanian: “Kirra”
  • Russian: “Кира”
  • Spanish: “Cirra”
  • Spanish: “Crisa”
  • Spanish: “Krisa”
  • Spanish: “Krissa”
  • Swedish: “Kírra”
  • Ukrainian: “Кірра”

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