Achaea
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- Type: regional unit of Greece with 297,000 residents
- Description: regional unit in Western Greece, Greece
- Also known as: “Achaea Regional Unit”, “Achaia”, “Achaḯa”, “Akhaḯa”, “Nomos Achaias”, “Nomós Achaḯas”, and “Nomós Akhaḯas”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kertezi and Kryoneri Achaias.
Kertezi
Village
Kertezi is a mountain village in the municipality of Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It is built in the valley of a tributary of the river Vouraikos, east of the mountain Kallifoni.
Trechlo, Achaia
Village
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Trechlo, Achaia is a village, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Achaea.
Achaea
- Location: West Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Achaea” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Akea”
- Arabic: “آخايا”
- Arabic: “أخايا”
- Arabic: “أهيا”
- Armenian: “Ախեյա”
- Asturian: “Acaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Axeya”
- Basque: “Akaia”
- Belarusian: “Ахая”
- Belarusian: “Ахея”
- Breton: “Ac’haia”
- Bulgarian: “Ахая”
- Catalan: “Prefectura d’Acaia”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica d’Acaia”
- Chinese: “亚该亚”
- Chinese: “阿哈伊亚专区”
- Chinese: “阿哈伊亞州”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Ahaja”
- Czech: “Achaea (regionální jednotka)”
- Czech: “Achaia”
- Czech: “Achaja (regionální jednotka)”
- Czech: “Regionální jednotka Achaea”
- Czech: “Regionální jednotka Achaia”
- Czech: “Regionální jednotka Achaja”
- Danish: “Achaea”
- Dutch: “Achaea”
- Dutch: “Achaia”
- Esperanto: “Aĥeo”
- Estonian: “Ahhaia piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Akhaia”
- Finnish: “Akhaian alueyksikkö”
- French: “Achaïe”
- French: “district régional d’Achaïe”
- Galician: “Acaia, Grecia”
- Galician: “Acaia”
- Georgian: “აქაია”
- German: “Achaia”
- German: “Regionalbezirk Achaia”
- Greek: “Αχαία”
- Greek: “Αχαΐα”
- Greek: “Νομός Αχαΐας”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή ενότητα Αχαΐας”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Αχαΐας”
- Hebrew: “אכאיה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז משנה אכאיה”
- Ido: “Provinco Ahaya”
- Indonesian: “Akhaya”
- Interlingua: “Unitate Regional Achaea”
- Italian: “Acaia”
- Japanese: “アハイア県”
- Kazakh: “Ахайя”
- Korean: “아하이아 현”
- Korean: “아하이아현”
- Latin: “Achaea”
- Latin: “Achaia”
- Lombard: “Acaia”
- Macedonian: “Ахаја”
- Malay: “Akhaia”
- Malayalam: “അക്കിയ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ā-găi-ā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akhaia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akhaía”
- Norwegian: “Akhaia”
- Ossetian: “Ахей”
- Persian: “آخا”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Achaja”
- Portuguese: “Acaia”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Ahaia”
- Russian: “Ахайя”
- Russian: “Ахея”
- Serbian: “Ахаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Ahaja”
- Slovak: “Achája”
- Slovenian: “Ahaja”
- Spanish: “Acaya”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de Acaya”
- Spanish: “Unidad regional de Acaya”
- Swedish: “Achaia”
- Tamil: “அக்கீயா”
- Turkish: “Ahaya ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Ahaya”
- Ukrainian: “Ахая”
- Urdu: “آخئیا”
- Urdu: “ایکیا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akhaia”
- Welsh: “Achaea”
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