Drosaton
Drosato is a village and a community in the Kilkis regional unit, northern Greece. Drosato was the seat of the former municipality of Doirani. The community Drosato consists of the villages Drosato, Doirani and Koryfi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,070 residents
- Description: village in Kilkis, Greece
- Also known as: “Dhrosáton”, “Drosato”, “Drosato, Kilkis”, “Drosáton”, and “Potarós”
- Historically known as: “Potaros”
- Postal codes: 620 55 and 61003
Places of Interest
Highlights include Doirani railway station and Doiran Military Cemetery.
Doirani railway station
Railway station
Doirani railway station is a railway station that serves the nearby town of Doirani, in Kilkis in Central Macedonia, Greece. The station is located 1.3 kilometres southeast of the settlement but still within the settlement limits. Doirani railway station is situated 2½ km west of Drosaton.
Doiran Military Cemetery
Cemetery
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Doiran Military Cemetery is situated 3 km west of Drosaton.
Doiran Memorial
Memorial
The Doiran Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial that is both a battlefield memorial and a memorial to the missing. It honours the dead of the British Salonika Force as well as commemorating by name the 2171 missing dead of that force who fell in fighting on the Macedonian front during the First World War in the period 1915–1918. Doiran Memorial is situated 3½ km west of Drosaton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Doirani and Akritas.
Doirani
Village
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Doirani is a town and former municipality in the Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kilkis, of which it is a municipal unit. Doirani is situated 3½ km west of Drosaton.
Akritas
Village
Akritas is a village situated in the municipal unit of Doirani of the municipality of Kilkis, in the Kilkis regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece. Akritas is situated 5 km southwest of Drosaton.
Kalindria
Village
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Kalindria is a village in the Kilkis region of Greece. It is situated in the municipal unit of Cherso, in the Kilkis municipality, within the Kilkis region of Central Macedonia. Kalindria is situated 6 km south of Drosaton.
Drosaton
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kilkis, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.16664° or 41° 9′ 60″ northLongitude
22.80166° or 22° 48′ 6″ eastPopulation
1,070Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)Open location code
8GH45R82+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 282735794OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
736381Wikidata ID
Q3401846
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Drosaton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دروساتون، كيلكيس”
- Arabic: “دروساتون”
- Bulgarian: “Дросато”
- Bulgarian: “Дросатон”
- Bulgarian: “Патарос”
- Cebuano: “Drosáto”
- Dutch: “Drosato”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دروساتون”
- French: “Drosáto”
- Greek: “Δροσάτο Κιλκίς”
- Greek: “Δροσάτο”
- Greek: “Δροσάτον”
- Greek: “Ποταρός” (historical)
- Irish: “Drosato”
- Macedonian: “Патарос”
- Russian: “Дросатон”
- Serbian: “Патарос”
- Swedish: “Drosáto”
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