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Kilkis

Kilkis

Kilkis is a city in , . As of 2021 there were 24,130 people living in the city proper, 27,493 people living in the municipal unit, and 45,308 in the municipality of Kilkis.
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  • Type: City with 17,400 residents
  • Description: city and district capital in Greece
  • Also known as: “Kilkis, Greece”
  • Postal codes: 611 00 and 61100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Kilkis and Monastery of Agios Georgios.

Museum
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The Kilkis Archaeological Museum is located in the city of in , . It opened in 1972, its purpose being to collect finds handed in by private individuals and unearthed during excavations in the Kilkis area.

Church
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is a church.

Museum
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The Kilkis War Museum stands outside the town of the city of in , . The museum was built in 1966, next to the war memorial built in 1927 on the Iroön Hill, the work of a sculptor named Dimitriadis from Athens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Metallikon and Leventochori.

Village
Metalliko is a settlement in the city of , in northern , located 6 km northwest of downtown Kilkis. In 2021 the settlement's population was 288.

Village
is a village in the municipality of , , . 6 km southwest of the city centre, it is part of the community of Mesiano.

Village
or Megali Vrisi is a village in the region of Greece. It is situated in the municipal unit of Kilkis, in the Kilkis municipality, within the Kilkis region of Central Macedonia.

Kilkis

Latitude
40.99359° or 40° 59′ 37″ north
Longitude
22.87415° or 22° 52′ 27″ east
Population
17,400
Elevation
277 metres (909 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR KKZ
Open location code
8GG4XVVF+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 134237444
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
735736
Wiki­data ID
Q214347
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Kilkis” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καλλικόν”
  • Arabic: “قلقيش”
  • Arabic: “كيلكيس، كيلكيس”
  • Arabic: “كيلكيس”
  • Armenian: “Կիլկիս”
  • Asturian: “Kilkis”
  • Basque: “Kilkis”
  • Belarusian: “Кілкіс”
  • Bengali: “কিলকিস”
  • Bulgarian: “Килкис”
  • Bulgarian: “Кукуш”
  • Catalan: “Kilkís”
  • Cebuano: “Kilkís”
  • Chinese: “基尔基斯”
  • Chinese: “基爾基斯”
  • Chinese: “嬌基斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Коукоушь”
  • Church Slavic: “Коу́коушь”
  • Church Slavic: “Кѹкѹшь”
  • Chuvash: “Килкис”
  • Croatian: “Kilkis”
  • Czech: “Kukuš”
  • Danish: “Kilkis”
  • Dutch: “Kilkis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيلكيس”
  • Esperanto: “Kilkiso”
  • Estonian: “Kilkís”
  • Finnish: “Kilkís”
  • French: “Kilkis”
  • French: “Kilkís”
  • German: “Kilkis”
  • German: “Kukuš”
  • German: “Kukusch”
  • German: “Кукуш”
  • Greek: “Kilkís”
  • Greek: “Κιλκίς”
  • Gujarati: “કિલકિસ”
  • Hebrew: “קילקיס”
  • Hindi: “किलकिस”
  • Hungarian: “Kilkísz”
  • Indonesian: “Kilkis”
  • Italian: “Kilkis”
  • Japanese: “キルキス”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಲ್ಕಿಸ್”
  • Korean: “킬키스”
  • Latin: “Callicum”
  • Latvian: “Kilkisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilkisas”
  • Macedonian: “Кукуш”
  • Malay: “Kilkis”
  • Marathi: “किलकीस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilkis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilkis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilkís”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kılkış”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kukuš”
  • Persian: “کیلکیس”
  • Polish: “Kilkis”
  • Portuguese: “Kilkis”
  • Romanian: “Kilkis”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Kilkis”
  • Russian: “Килкис”
  • Russian: “Кукуш”
  • Russian: “Кылкыш”
  • Serbian: “Kukuš”
  • Serbian: “Килкис”
  • Serbian: “Кукуш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilkis”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kukuš”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Кукуш”
  • Sinhala: “කිල්කිස්”
  • Slovenian: “Kilkis”
  • Spanish: “Kilkis”
  • Spanish: “Kilkís”
  • Swedish: “Kilkis”
  • Swedish: “Kukusj”
  • Tamil: “கில்கிஸ்”
  • Telugu: “కిల్ కిస్”
  • Thai: “เคลคีซ”
  • Turkish: “Kilkis”
  • Turkish: “Kılkış”
  • Ukrainian: “Кілкіс”
  • Ukrainian: “Кукуш”
  • Urdu: “کیلکیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Kilkis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kilkis”
  • Welsh: “Kilkis”
  • Yue Chinese: “嬌基斯”

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