Chaeronea
Chaeronea is a village and a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece, located about 35 kilometers east of Delphi. The settlement was formerly known as Kópraina, and renamed to Chairóneia in 1916.
- Type: Village with 762 residents
- Description: modern village in Boeotia, Greece
- Also known as: “Cheronia” and “Khairónia”
- Postal code: 32100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chaironeia archaeological museum and Lion of Chaeronea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akontio and Tsoukaládes.
Akontio
Hamlet
Akontio is a subdivision of the municipality of Livadeia, Greece. Akontio is situated 3½ km east of Chaeronea.
Tsoukaládes
Village
Tsoukalades is a village of the Livadeia municipality. The 2021 census recorded 92 residents in the village. Tsoukalades is a part of the community of Livadeia. Tsoukaládes is situated 6 km southwest of Chaeronea.
Chaeronea
- Category: locality
- Location: Livadeia, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.49571° or 38° 29′ 45″ north
Longitude
22.84566° or 22° 50′ 44″ east
Population
762
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
Open location code
8GC4FRWW+77
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- “Chairóneia”
- “Haironeia”
- “Herónia”
- “Kápraina”
- “Káprena”
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