Agioi Deka
Agioi Deka is a village in the Heraklion regional unit, Greece, with 785 inhabitants. It is located in the 44th km of the Heraklion-Tympaki national road and it is the centre of the municipality of Gortyna.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 785 residents
- Description: village in Herakleion, Greece
- Also known as: “Agii Deka”, “Áyioi Dhéka”, and “Hagios Deka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Inscription (5th c. BC) and Gortyn amphitheatre.
Great Inscription (5th c. BC)
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Gortyn code was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Greek city-state of Gortyn in southern Crete.
Gortyn amphitheatre
Archaeological site
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gortyn amphitheatre is an archaeological site.
South Theatre
Archaeological site
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
South Theatre is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitropoli and Ampelouzos.
Ampelouzos
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ampelouzos is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Agioi Deka.
Vourvoulitis
Hamlet
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vourvoulitis is a hamlet, which is situated 3 km northeast of Agioi Deka.
Agioi Deka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gortyna, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.05893° or 35° 3′ 32″ northLongitude
24.96131° or 24° 57′ 41″ eastPopulation
785Elevation
323 metres (1,060 feet)Open location code
8G763X56+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3635906887OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
264083Wikidata ID
Q4692593
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Agioi Deka” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Agioi Deka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اجيوى ديكا”
- Finnish: “Ágioi Déka”
- French: “Ágii Déka”
- French: “Agius Dheca”
- French: “Áyii Déka”
- French: “Saints-Dix”
- German: “Agii Deka”
- Greek: “Ágioi Déka”
- Greek: “Αγ. Δέκα”
- Greek: “Άγιοι Δέκα Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Άγιοι Δέκα”
- Hebrew: “איוי דקה”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Áji Déka”
- Russian: “Айи-Дека”
- Urdu: “آئیی دیکا”
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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 “Agioi Deka”. Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.