Lake Kerkini
Lake Kerkini is an artificial reservoir in Central Macedonia, Greece that was created in 1932, and then redeveloped in 1980, on the site of what was previously an extremely extensive marshland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: reservoir in Serres regional unit, Greece
- Also known as: “Kerkini”, “Kerkinitis Limni”, “Límni Butkóvou”, “Limni Kerkini”, and “Límni Kerkínis”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mesolofos and Kerkini.
Mesolofos
Locality
Photo: Serresmap, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mesolofos is a locality, which is situated 6 km west of Lake Kerkini.
Kerkini
Village
Photo: Wouterhagens, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kerkini is a village, which is situated 7 km northwest of Lake Kerkini.
Lake Kerkini
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Lake Kerkini” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կերկինի”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerkini su anbarı”
- Bashkir: “Керкини”
- Bulgarian: “Бутковски гьол”
- Bulgarian: “Бутковско езеро”
- Bulgarian: “Лимни Керкини”
- Cebuano: “Límni Kerkíni”
- Chinese: “凯尔基尼湖”
- Danish: “Kerkinisøen”
- Dutch: “Kerkinimeer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Kerkini”
- Finnish: “Kerkíni”
- French: “lac Kerkini”
- French: “Lac Kerkíni”
- German: “Kerkini-See”
- Greek: “Κερκίνη”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Κερκίνη”
- Italian: “Kerkini (lago)”
- Italian: “Kerkini”
- Japanese: “ケルキニ湖”
- Latvian: “Kerkini ezers”
- Macedonian: “Бутковско Езеро”
- Macedonian: “Керкини”
- Russian: “Керкини”
- Serbian: “Керкини”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Kerkini”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerkini”
- Spanish: “Lago Achinos”
- Spanish: “Lago Kerkini”
- Swedish: “Límni Kerkíni”
- Ukrainian: “Керкіні”
- Welsh: “Llyn Kerkini”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Kerkini”. Photo: Eimaiokanenas, CC BY-SA 4.0.