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Aptera

Aptera or Apteron was an ancient city, now an archaeological site in Kalives in western , a kilometre inland from the southern shore of , about 13 km east of the city of in the municipality of .
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Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Aptera Fortress and Stilos.

Castle
Photo: Oltau, CC BY 3.0.
is a castle, which is situated 630 metres northeast of Aptera.

Archaeological site
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stylos is an archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement and cemetery near the modern village of Stylos on the island of . Stylos means "column" in Greek. is situated 2 km southwest of Aptera.

Castle
Photo: B-noa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle, which is situated 3½ km north of Aptera.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalami and Kalyves.

Hamlet
Photo: Nikolaos.basiliou, Public domain.
is a hamlet.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large village in , Greece. It is the main village in the municipal unit of . is situated 3 km southeast of Aptera.

Village
Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Stilos is a village and part of the municipal unit in the of the Greek island of . The Greek etymology of the name of the village is 'column' or 'pillar'. is situated 3½ km southwest of Aptera.

Aptera

Latitude
35.46257° or 35° 27′ 45″ north
Longitude
24.14151° or 24° 8′ 29″ east
Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)
Open location code
8G76F47R+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27225814
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
264725
Wiki­data ID
Q622234
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Aptera” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Аптера”
  • Catalan: “Àptera”
  • Dutch: “Aptera”
  • Finnish: “Aptera”
  • French: “Aptera”
  • German: “Aptera”
  • Greek: “Απτέρα”
  • Greek: “Ἄπτερα”
  • Greek: “Άπτερα”
  • Greek: “Ἀπτερία”
  • Persian: “آپترا”
  • Portuguese: “Aptara”
  • Portuguese: “Aptaria”
  • Portuguese: “Aptera”
  • Portuguese: “Áptera”
  • Portuguese: “Aptere”
  • Portuguese: “Apterea”
  • Portuguese: “Apteria”
  • Russian: “Аптера”
  • Serbian: “Aptera (Grčka)”
  • Serbian: “Aptera”
  • Spanish: “Aptera”
  • Spanish: “Áptera”
  • Turkish: “Aptera”

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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 “Aptera”. Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.