Chaeronea

Chaeronea is a village and a former municipality in , , located about 35 kilometers east of . The settlement was formerly known as Kópraina, and renamed to Chairóneia in 1916.
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  • Village with 762 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 128 metres (420 feet)
  • Description: modern village in Boeotia, Greece
  • Postal code: 32100
  • Also known as
    “Cheronia”
    “Khairónia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chaironeia archaeological museum and Lion of Chaeronea.
Václav Moravec, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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is a memorial.
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is a ruins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akontio and Tsoukaládes.
is a subdivision of the municipality of , . is situated 3½ km east of Chaeronea.
Tsoukalades is a village of the . is situated 6 km southwest of Chaeronea.
Costas78, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 10 km east of Chaeronea.

Chaeronea

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Latitude
38.49571° or 38° 29′ 45″ north
Longitude
22.84566° or 22° 50′ 44″ east
Open location code
8GC4FRWW+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 286621938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
260176
Wiki­data ID
Q549874

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Chaeronea” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kaprena”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Χαιρώνεια”
  • Arabic: “خيرونيا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xeroneya”
  • Basque: “Keronea”
  • Belarusian: “Херанея”
  • Breton: “C’haeronea”
  • Bulgarian: “Херонея”
  • Catalan: “Queronea”
  • Chinese: “切若尼亞”
  • Chinese: “奇羅尼亞”
  • Czech: “Chairóneia”
  • Danish: “Chaeronea”
  • Dutch: “Chaeronea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشايرونيا”
  • Esperanto: “Keroneo”
  • Extremaduran: “Queronea”
  • Finnish: “Chairóneia”
  • French: “Chéronée”
  • French: “Cheronia”
  • Galician: “Queronea”
  • German: “Chaironeia”
  • German: “Cheronia”
  • Greek: “Κάπραινα”
  • Greek: “Χαιρώνεια Βοιωτίας”
  • Greek: “Χαιρώνεια”
  • Hebrew: “כאירוניאה”
  • Hebrew: “כירונאה”
  • Hungarian: “Khairóneia”
  • Indonesian: “Khaironeia”
  • Italian: “Cheronea”
  • Japanese: “カイロネイア”
  • Korean: “카이로네이아”
  • Latin: “Chaeronea”
  • Lithuanian: “Chaironėja”
  • Macedonian: “Хајронеја”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khaironeia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kherónia”
  • Norwegian: “Khaironeia”
  • Persian: “خایرونیا”
  • Polish: “Cheronea”
  • Portuguese: “Queroneia”
  • Russian: “Капрена”
  • Russian: “Херοниа”
  • Russian: “Херонея”
  • Russian: “Херония”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heroneja”
  • Slovak: “Cheronia”
  • Slovenian: “Haironeja”
  • Spanish: “Kapraina”
  • Spanish: “Queronea”
  • Swedish: “Chaironeia”
  • Turkish: “Haeronea”
  • Turkish: “Heroneya”
  • Ukrainian: “Херонея”
  • Urdu: “کھیرونیا”
  • “Haironeia”
  • “Herónia”

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