Afalonas
Afalonas is a village in Lesbos, Lesvos, North Aegean Islands and has about 456 residents. Afalonas is situated nearby to the village Pamfila, as well as near Panagiouda.- Type: Village with 456 residents
- Description: human settlement in Greece
- Also known as: “Afalonas, Lesvos”
- Postal code: 81100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kalamiaris palm forest and Roman Aqueduct.
Kalamiaris palm forest
Forest
Photo: Fallacia83, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kalamiaris palm forest or Panayouda palm forest is a semi-natural small palm forest on the east coast of Lesbos island. The original twenty-four Canary Island Date Palms were planted by the English diplomat Atkinson who brought them from Egypt in the late 19th century.
Monastery Saint Rafael
Monastery
Photo: Aleksei m, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monastery Saint Rafael is situated 4 km northwest of Afalonas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pamfila and Panagiouda.
Panagiouda
Village
Photo: Fallacia83, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Panagiouda is a village on the east coast of Lesbos; 6 km north of Mytilene. As of 2011, Panagiouda had 906 inhabitants which were primarily fishermen.
Afalonas
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lesbos, Lesvos, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
39.14776° or 39° 8′ 52″ northLongitude
26.51506° or 26° 30′ 54″ eastPopulation
456Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)Open location code
8GF84GX8+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 505063780OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
412715Wikidata ID
Q21645957
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Turkish—“Afalonas” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Afálonas”
- German: “Afalonas”
- Greek: “Αφάλωνας Λέσβου”
- Greek: “Αφάλωνας”
- Russian: “Афалонас”
- Turkish: “Afalonas (Midilli)”
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