Feres

Feres is in . It has the most significant Byzantine monument in Thrace: the Monastery of Panagia Kosmosoteira.
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  • Type: Town with 5,210 residents
  • Description: town and a former municipality in Evros, Greece
  • Also known as: “Férai”, “Feres, Evros”, “Férrai”, and “Pherrai”
  • Postal code: 68500

Places of Interest

Highlights include Theotokos Kosmosteira.

Castle
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The Theotokos Kosmosoteira is a Greek Orthodox church in Feres, Evros, in the region of . It was built as a monastery in c. 1152 by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Feres

Latitude
40.8942° or 40° 53′ 39″ north
Longitude
26.1741° or 26° 10′ 27″ east
Population
5,210
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR FER
Open location code
8GG8V5VF+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 139260653
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
736261
Wiki­data ID
Q943354
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Feres” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيرس”
  • Asturian: “Feres”
  • Bulgarian: “Фере”
  • Catalan: “Feres (Hebros)”
  • Catalan: “Feres”
  • Cebuano: “Féres”
  • Chinese: “费雷斯 (埃夫罗斯）”
  • Dutch: “Feres”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيرس”
  • Finnish: “Féres (Évros)”
  • Finnish: “Féres”
  • French: “Phères”
  • German: “Feres”
  • Greek: “Βήρα”
  • Greek: “Φέραι”
  • Greek: “Φέρες Έβρου”
  • Greek: “Φέρες”
  • Italian: “Feres”
  • Japanese: “フェレス”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Féres i Evros”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Féres i Évros”
  • Persian: “فریس (اوروس)”
  • Persian: “فریس”
  • Portuguese: “Feres”
  • Romanian: “Feres”
  • Russian: “Вира”
  • Russian: “Фере”
  • Russian: “Ферес”
  • Russian: “Ферре”
  • Russian: “Ферры”
  • Spanish: “Feres”
  • Swedish: “Féres”
  • Turkish: “Farecik”
  • Turkish: “Ferecik”
  • “Féres”

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