Dion
Dion is a village and municipal unit in the municipality of Dion-Olympos in the Pieria regional unit, Greece. It is located at the foot of Mount Olympus at a distance of 17 km from the capital city of Katerini.
- Type: Village with 1,340 residents
- Description: village in Greece
- Also known as: “Ayios Dhimitrios”, “Dio”, “Dío”, “Dion, Pieria”, “Malathriá”, “Malatrja”, “Δίο”, “Дий”, “Малатрия”, “Малафрия”, “ディオ (ギリシャ)”, “ディオン村”, and “第烏姆”
- Postal code: 601 50
Places of Interest
Highlights: Archaeological Museum of Dion and Hellenistic theatre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Platanakia and Karitsa.
Vrontou
Town
Dion
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dio-Olympos, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.17217° or 40° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
22.48743° or 22° 29′ 15″ east
Population
1,340
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8GG45FCP+VX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Dion” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Δίον”
- Arabic: “ديون، بيريا”
- Arabic: “ديون”
- Basque: “Dion”
- Basque: “Díon”
- Bulgarian: “Дион”
- Catalan: “Dion”
- Cebuano: “Díon”
- Chinese: “迪翁”
- Dutch: “Dion”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديون”
- Esperanto: “Dion”
- Estonian: “Díon”
- Finnish: “Dion”
- French: “Dion”
- German: “Dion”
- Greek: “Δίον Πιερίας”
- Greek: “Δίον”
- Hebrew: “דיון (יוון)”
- Hebrew: “דיון”
- Hungarian: “Dion”
- Indonesian: “Dion, Pieria”
- Italian: “Dion”
- Japanese: “ディオン”
- Latin: “Dium”
- Lithuanian: “Dion Olympos”
- Macedonian: “Дион”
- Macedonian: “Малатрија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dion (Hellas)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dío i Piería”
- Norwegian: “Dion”
- Polish: “Dion (Macedonia Środkowa)”
- Polish: “Dion”
- Russian: “Дион”
- Serbian: “Дион (Грчка)”
- Serbian: “Дион”
- Slovenian: “Dion, Pieria”
- Spanish: “Díon”
- Swedish: “Dion”
- Turkish: “Dion”
- Ukrainian: “Діон”
- Urdu: “ڈیون، پیریا”
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Places to explore: Ξερόκαμπος and Kanapitsa.
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