Akr. Ritsos
Akr. Ritsos is a locality in Central Macedonia, Greece. Akr. Ritsos is situated nearby to the hamlet Lagonisi, as well as near the village Ormos Panagias.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: cape in Sithonia municipality, Greece
- Also known as: “Akra Ritsos”, “Cape Ritsos”, and “Cape Rítsos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pyrgos Agios Nikolaos Sithonia (Ancient Singos?).
Pyrgos Agios Nikolaos Sithonia (Ancient Singos?)
Archaeological site
Singus or Singos was a town of Sithonia in the Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia, upon the gulf to which it gave its name, the Singitic Gulf. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities, along with Assa, Pilorus and Sarta, located near Mount Athos, which Xerxes had ordered to open a channel through which his fleet passed. Pyrgos Agios Nikolaos Sithonia (Ancient Singos?) is situated 2½ km northwest of Akr. Ritsos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ormos Panagias and Agios Nikolaos.
Ormos Panagias
Village
Photo: MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ormos Panagias is a coastal village of Sithonia in Chalkidiki, Greece. Located between Kassandra and Mount Athos, Ormos Panagias is considered by some to be the port of the village of Agios Nikolaos, which is only a few kilometres away.
Agios Nikolaos
Photo: W.Horseman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Nikolaos is a village of Chalkidiki, in the Sithonia peninsula with a permanent population of 2,500. Agios Nikolaos is 110 km from Thessaloniki, where Sithonia peninsula begins.
Old Nikiti
Neighborhood
Photo: Andrew Zorin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old Nikiti is a neighborhood, which is situated 6 km west of Akr. Ritsos.
Akr. Ritsos
- Category: cape
- Location: Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.23698° or 40° 14′ 13″ northLongitude
23.74727° or 23° 44′ 50″ eastOpen location code
8GG56PPW+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2641021029OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
734395Wikidata ID
Q25125671
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Akr. Ritsos” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ákra Rítsos”
- German: “Akr. Ritsos”
- Greek: “Ακρ. Ρίτσος”
- Swedish: “Ákra Rítsos”
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