Kallikratis
Kallikratis is a small village belonging to the municipality of Sfakia, in southwest Crete, Greece. According to tradition, it was named after the admiral Manoussos Kallikratis, who in March 1453 led a campaign to reinforce the defense of Constantinople with 5 ships and 1500 Cretan volunteers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 46 residents
- Description: village in Greece
- Also known as: “Kalikratis”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asi Gonia and Myriokefala.
Asi Gonia
Village
Asi Gonia is a mountainous village and a former community in the eastern part of the Chania regional unit in Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Apokoronas, of which it is a municipal unit. Asi Gonia is situated 4 km northeast of Kallikratis.
Myriokefala
Village
Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Myriokefala is a local community of the Rethymno Municipality in the Rethymno of the region of Crete established by Kallikratis reform. Previously, it was part of municipality of Lappa. Capital of the new municipality is Rethymno. Myriokefala is situated 4 km east of Kallikratis.
Argoules
Hamlet
Photo: Lourakis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Argoules is a semi-mountainous hamlet in Sfakia municipality on the island of Crete, Greece. It is the easternmost settlement of the Chania regional unit, located at a distance of about 85 km from the city of Chania. Argoules is situated 6 km south of Kallikratis.
Kallikratis
Latitude
35.24832° or 35° 14′ 54″ northLongitude
24.25646° or 24° 15′ 23″ eastPopulation
46Elevation
745 metres (2,444 feet)Open location code
8G7667X4+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 287624460OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
261428Wikidata ID
Q3562100
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Turkish—“Kallikratis” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Kallikratis”
- Bulgarian: “Каликратис”
- Dutch: “Kallikratis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاليكراتيس”
- French: “Kallikrátis”
- German: “Kallikratis”
- Greek: “Καλλικράτης Σφακίων”
- Greek: “Καλλικράτης Χανίων”
- Greek: “Καλλικράτης”
- Russian: “Каликратис”
- Russian: “Калликратис”
- Turkish: “Kallikratis”
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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 “Kallikratis”. Photo: Lourakis, CC BY-SA 3.0.