Agios Georgios
Agios Georgios is a village in the Lasithi Plateau in the island of Crete, and also a municipal unit. Agios Georgios lies at an altitude of 840 metres.Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Residential area
- Description: village in Oropedio Lasithi, Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Agios Georgios Lasithi”, “Agios Georgios, Lasithi”, and “Agios Georgios, Oropedio Lasithi”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lasithi Plateau and Dhiktean Cave.
Lasithi Plateau
Photo: SunTW, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lasithi Plateau is a high endorheic plateau, located in the Lasithi regional unit in eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 1997 Kapodistrias reform, it is a municipality whose seat is Tzermiado and the second biggest village is Agios Georgios.
Dhiktean Cave
Cave
Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Psychro Cave is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete. Psychro is associated with the Dictaean or Diktaian Cave, one of the putative sites of the birth of Zeus. Dhiktean Cave is situated 3½ km west of Agios Georgios.
Trapeza cave
Cave
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trapeza, Crete is a Neolithic and Bronze Age sacred cave on the island of Crete in Greece. Some of the Bronze Age pottery finds at Trapeza are similar to specimens recovered at Knossos and Vasiliki. Trapeza cave is situated 3½ km north of Agios Georgios.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avrakondes and Psichro.
Psichro
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Psichro is a village, which is situated 3 km west of Agios Georgios.
Tzermiado
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tzermiado is a village, which is situated 3½ km north of Agios Georgios.
Agios Georgios
- Category: village
- Location: Oropedio Lasithiou, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.16608° or 35° 9′ 58″ northLongitude
25.48338° or 25° 29′ 0″ eastPopulation
544Elevation
834 metres (2,736 feet)Open location code
8G775F8M+C8OpenStreetMap ID
way 107736415OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
263675Wikidata ID
Q12872120
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Uzbek—“Agios Georgios” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “اجيوس جيورجيوس لاسيثى كريتى”
- Finnish: “Ágios Geórgios”
- French: “Ágios Geórgios (plateau du Lassíthi)”
- French: “Ágios Geórgios”
- German: “Agios Georgios Lassithi Kreta”
- German: “Agios Georgios”
- German: “Άγιος Γεώργιος Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Ágios Geórgios”
- Greek: “Áyios Yeóryios”
- Greek: “Άγιος Γεώργιος Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Άγιος Γεώργιος Οροπεδίου Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Άγιος Γεώργιος”
- Russian: “Агиос-Георгиос”
- Russian: “Айос-Еорьос”
- Uzbek: “Agios Georgios”
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