Phaistos

Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern , a municipality in south central .
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  • Historical site
  • …lies at an elevation of around 90 metres (280 feet)
  • Description: ancient Greek city in Crete
  • Also known as
    “Archaía Pólis Faistós”
    “Faistós”
    “Festos”
    “Mint of Phaestus”
    “Phaestos”
    “Phaestus”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Phaistos Disc and Palace of Phaistos.
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The , or Phaistos Disk, is a disc…
Marsyas, CC BY 2.5.
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is a square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Voroi and Petrokefali.
C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.
C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 3 km southeast of Phaistos.
Rob de Vries, CC BY 2.0.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km south of Phaistos.

Phaistos

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Latitude
35.05104° or 35° 3′ 4″ north
Longitude
24.81438° or 24° 48′ 52″ east
Open location code
8G763R27+CQ
Geo­Names ID
262531
Wiki­data ID
Q249707

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Phaistos” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Phaistos”
  • Arabic: “فيستوس”
  • Armenian: “Ֆեստոս”
  • Basque: “Festo”
  • Belarusian: “Фест”
  • Bulgarian: “Фестос”
  • Catalan: “Festos”
  • Catalan: “Phaistos”
  • Chinese: “斐斯托斯”
  • Chinese: “菲斯托斯”
  • Czech: “Faistos”
  • Danish: “Festos”
  • Dutch: “Festos”
  • Dutch: “Phaestus”
  • Dutch: “Phaistos”
  • Finnish: “Faistos”
  • French: “Festos”
  • French: “Phaestos”
  • French: “Phaestus”
  • French: “Phaïstos”
  • Georgian: “ფესტოსი”
  • German: “Phaistos”
  • Greek: “Φαιστός”
  • Hebrew: “פאיסטוס”
  • Hungarian: “Phaisztosz”
  • Indonesian: “Phaestos”
  • Indonesian: “Phaestus”
  • Indonesian: “Phaistos”
  • Italian: “Festo”
  • Japanese: “ファイストス”
  • Latin: “Phaestus”
  • Lithuanian: “Faistas”
  • Macedonian: “Фест”
  • Macedonian: “Фестос”
  • Persian: “فیستوس”
  • Polish: “Fajstos”
  • Portuguese: “Faesto (Creta)”
  • Portuguese: “Faestos (Creta)”
  • Portuguese: “Faistó (Creta)”
  • Portuguese: “Faistós (Creta)”
  • Portuguese: “Festo”
  • Portuguese: “Festos (Creta)”
  • Portuguese: “Phaistos (Creta)”
  • Romanian: “Phaistos”
  • Russian: “Фест”
  • Serbian: “Фестос”
  • Slovak: “Faistos”
  • Slovenian: “Fajstos”
  • Spanish: “Festo”
  • Spanish: “Festos”
  • Spanish: “Phaistos”
  • Swedish: “Faistos”
  • Swiss German: “Phaistos”
  • Tatar: “Фест борынгы каласы”
  • Turkish: “Phaestus”
  • Turkish: “Phaistos”
  • Turkish: “Phayttus”
  • Ukrainian: “Фест”
  • Urdu: “فیستوس”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆեսթոս”
  • “𐀞𐀂𐀵”

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