Samothrace
Samothrace is a village in Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace and has an elevation of 1,211 metres. Samothrace is situated nearby to the village Alonia, as well as near the hamlet Katsampas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,710 residents
- Description: village on homonymous island in Greece
- Also known as: “Chora”, “Dimos Samothrace”, “Samothraki”, “Samothraki (Chora)”, and “Χώρα”
- Postal code: 68002
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sanctuary of the Great Gods and Archaeological Museum of Samothrace.
Sanctuary of the Great Gods
Archaeological site
Photo: Marsyas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, is one of the principal Pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of Samothrace within the larger Thrace.
Archaeological Museum of Samothrace
Museum
Photo: ale3andro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Samothrace is located in Samothrace of the Evros regional unit, in Greece. It has four rooms and an atrium, presenting the following: The museum was designed by Stuart Shaw, an architect based at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and built by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens in 1939–55.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samothrace and Kamariotissa.
Samothrace
Photo: Handrian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Samothraki is a small island that is the conical tip of a mountain rising out of the sea in the North Aegean Islands of Greece.
Kamariotissa
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kamariotissa is a village, which is situated 4½ km west of Samothrace.
Samothrace
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.4744° or 40° 28′ 28″ northLongitude
25.5248° or 25° 31′ 29″ eastPopulation
2,710Elevation
1,211 metres (3,973 feet)Open location code
8GG7FGFF+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 61738217OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8133889Wikidata ID
Q21406482
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Samothrace” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Samothráki”
- Chinese: “萨莫色雷斯”
- French: “Chóra”
- French: “Samothrace”
- Greek: “Σαμοθράκη (Χώρα)”
- Greek: “Σαμοθράκη”
- Greek: “Σαμοθράκης”
- Greek: “Χώρα Σαμοθράκης”
- Irish: “Samothraki”
- Russian: “Самотраки”
- Slovenian: “Hora”
- Slovenian: “Samotraka”
- Swedish: “Samothráki”
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Localities in the Area
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