Krini
Krini is a small town of approximately 400 year-round inhabitants in Northern Greece. Krini is a community of the municipal unit Triglia, regional unit of Chalkidiki. Krini's main agricultural crops include wheat, olives, onions, grapes, and anise.- Type: Village with 450 residents
- Description: village in Greece
- Also known as: “Krini, Greece”
- Postal code: 63080
Places of Interest
Highlights include Petralona cave and Anthropological Museum Petralona cave.
Petralona cave
Cave
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The Petralona Cave a karst formation, is located at 300 m above sea-level on the western foot of Mount Katsika, about 1 km east of the village of Petralona, about 35 km south-east of Thessaloniki city on the Chalkidiki peninsula, Greece. Petralona cave is situated 2½ km south of Krini.
Anthropological Museum Petralona cave
Museum
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The Anthropological Museum of Petralona was thirty-five kilometres from Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. It displayed finds from the nearby Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. Anthropological Museum Petralona cave is situated 3 km south of Krini.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petralona and Monopigado.
Petralona
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Petralona is a small locality in Chalkidiki, Macedonia, Greece. It is 6 km northwest of Triglia and 35 km southeast of Thessaloniki. Its altitude is 270 m.
Monopigado
Village
Monopigado is a village of the Thermi municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Vasilika. The 2021 census recorded 180 inhabitants in the village. Monopigado is a part of the community of Agios Antonios. Monopigado is situated 4½ km northwest of Krini.
Agios Antonios
Village
Agios Antonios is a village and a community of the Thermi municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Vasilika, of which it was a municipal district. Agios Antonios is situated 7 km northwest of Krini.
Krini
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nea Propontida, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.39679° or 40° 23′ 48″ northLongitude
23.15926° or 23° 9′ 33″ eastPopulation
450Elevation
291 metres (955 feet)Open location code
8GG595W5+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1072115886OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
735543Wikidata ID
Q3564894
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Krini” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Крини (дем Неа Пропонтида)”
- Bulgarian: “Крини”
- Cebuano: “Kríni”
- Dutch: “Krini”
- Finnish: “Kríni (Chalkidikí)”
- Finnish: “Kríni”
- French: “Krini”
- German: “Krini”
- Greek: “Kríni”
- Greek: “Κρήνη Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Κρήνη”
- Irish: “Krini”
- Russian: “Крини”
- Serbian: “Крини (Халкидики)”
- Serbian: “Крини”
- Swedish: “Kríni”
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