Episkopi
Episkopi is a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Hersonissos, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 967 residents
- Description: village in Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Episkopi, Heraklion” and “Piskopí”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nikos Kazantzakis Museum and Monastery Agarathos.
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
Museum
Photo: Pylambert, Public domain.
The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum is a museum in Myrtia village in the Heraklion regional unit of Crete, in Greece. It is 20 km south of the town of Heraklion and it is dedicated to the life and work of the famous writer Nikos Kazantzakis, a 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and known worldwide for his book "Zorba the Greek" and "The Last Temptation of Christ". Nikos Kazantzakis Museum is situated 3½ km southwest of Episkopi.
Monastery Agarathos
Church
The Agarathos Monastery, officially the Holy Monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is a Greek Orthodox monastery situated near the village of Sgourokefali in the Heraklion region of central Crete, Greece. Monastery Agarathos is situated 3½ km south of Episkopi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sgourokefali and Aitania.
Epano Vatheia
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Epano Vatheia is a Greek village in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. It is located at an altitude of 260 m, some 17 kilometres from the city of Heraklion, in the valley of the Stavromenos river. Its population numbers 285.
Episkopi
- Category: locality
- Location: Chersonissos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.25688° or 35° 15′ 25″ northLongitude
25.23779° or 25° 14′ 16″ eastPopulation
967Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)Open location code
8G77764Q+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 938780826OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
262655Wikidata ID
Q7219
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Episkopi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إبيسكوبي، إراكليون”
- Arabic: “إبيسكوبي”
- Belarusian: “Эпіскопі”
- Cebuano: “Episkopí (lungsod sa Gresya, Crete)”
- Cebuano: “Episkopí”
- Dutch: “Episkopi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قرية يپيسكوپى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يپيسكوپى”
- Finnish: “Episkopí”
- French: “Episkopí, Héraklion”
- French: “Episkopí”
- German: “Episkopi”
- Greek: “Επισκοπή Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Επισκοπή”
- Italian: “Episkopi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Episkopí i Iráklio”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Episkopí”
- Russian: “Эпископи”
- Spanish: “Episkopi”
- Swedish: “Episkopí (ort i Grekland, Kreta)”
- Swedish: “Episkopí”
- Turkish: “Piskopi”
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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 “Episkopi”. Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.