Thassos
Thasos is a town on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. It is the capital and main town of the island. The town is also called Limenas Thasou or for short just Limenas to distinguish the town from the island on which it is situated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,130 residents
- Description: village on the Greek island of Thasos
- Also known as: “Limenas Thasou”, “Limín”, “Thasas”, and “Thasos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thassos Ancient Theater.
Thassos Ancient Theater
Theater building
Photo: Rosa-Maria Rinkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thassos Ancient Theater is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panagia and Rachoni.
Panagia
Village
Photo: ViseMoD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Panagia is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. The village is located in the northwest of the island, east of the massif of Mount Ipsarion at an elevation of 300 m. Panagia is situated 6 km south of Thassos.
Chrysi Ammoudia
Village
Photo: Ronald Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chrysi Ammoudia is a village, which is situated 7 km southeast of Thassos.
Thassos
- Category: locality
- Location: Thasos, Kavala, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.7782° or 40° 46′ 42″ northLongitude
24.70588° or 24° 42′ 21″ eastPopulation
3,130Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR TSOOpen location code
8GG6QPH4+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 1704973093OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Thassos” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Thasos”
- Bulgarian: “Боровец”
- Bulgarian: “Лименас”
- Bulgarian: “Тасос”
- Cebuano: “Thásos”
- Chinese: “萨索斯”
- Croatian: “Tasos”
- Dutch: “Thasos”
- Estonian: “Thásos”
- Finnish: “Thásos”
- French: “Liménas”
- French: “Thásos”
- French: “Thassos”
- German: “Limenas Thasou”
- German: “Limenas”
- German: “Thasos-Stadt”
- German: “Thasos”
- German: “Thassos”
- Greek: “Θάσος”
- Greek: “Λιμένας Θάσου”
- Greek: “Λιμήν Θάσου”
- Hungarian: “Thaszosz”
- Hungarian: “Thászosz”
- Italian: “Limenas”
- Japanese: “タソス”
- Macedonian: “Боровец”
- Macedonian: “Лимен”
- Macedonian: “Лименас”
- Macedonian: “Тасос”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liménas på Thásos”
- Persian: “تاسوس (شهر)”
- Persian: “تاسوس”
- Polish: “Tasos”
- Russian: “Тасос”
- Scots: “Thasos”
- Serbian: “Tasos”
- Serbian: “Лименас (Тасос)”
- Serbian: “Лименас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tasos”
- Slovak: “Limenas Thasou”
- Slovak: “Limenas”
- Spanish: “Limenas”
- Spanish: “Tasos”
- Swedish: “Thassos”
- Turkish: “Taşoz”
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