Nea Potidaia
Potidaea was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at the southern end of Chalcidice in northern Greece.- Type: Locality with 1,560 residents
- Description: ancient city of Chalcidice
- Also known as: “Nea Potidea”, “Nea Potidhaia”, “Potidaea”, and “Potidaia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portas Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nea Potidaia and Nea Moudania.
Nea Potidaia
Village
Photo: Geraki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nea Poteidaia is a town in the municipality of Nea Propontida in Chalkidiki, Greece. The location is the only land access to the Kassandra Peninsula. Built on the site of the ancient city of Potidaea, 33 kilometers south-west of Polygyros, it was re-founded in 1922 by Greek refugees from Platanos in Eastern Thrace and Kalolimnos which remained under Turkish rule.
Nea Moudania
Photo: Gordon F. Smith, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nea Moudania is a town in Chalkidiki, Greece. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial center of the regional unit of Chalkidiki.
Agios Mamas
Village
Photo: Geraki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nea Moudania is a town in Chalkidiki, Greece. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial center of the regional unit of Chalkidiki. Agios Mamas is situated 7 km north of Nea Potidaia.
Nea Potidaia
- Categories: polis and ancient city
- Location: Nea Propontida, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Nea Potidaia” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κασσάνρεια”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ποτίδαια”
- Arabic: “نيا بوتيديا”
- Basque: “Potidea”
- Belarusian: “Патыдэя”
- Bulgarian: “Неа Потидеа”
- Bulgarian: “Потидея”
- Cebuano: “Néa Potídhaia”
- Chinese: “波提狄亚”
- Chinese: “波提狄亞”
- Chinese: “波蒂迪亞”
- Dutch: “Poteidaia”
- Dutch: “Potidaea”
- Esperanto: “Potidea”
- Finnish: “Poteidaia”
- Finnish: “Potidaia”
- French: “Potidee”
- French: “Potidée”
- Galician: “Potidea”
- German: “Néa Potídhaia”
- German: “Poteidaia”
- German: “Potidaea”
- German: “Potidaia”
- German: “Potidea”
- Greek: “Νέα Ποτίδαια”
- Greek: “Ποτίδαια”
- Indonesian: “Potidaia”
- Italian: “Potidaea”
- Italian: “Potidea”
- Japanese: “ポティダイア”
- Latin: “Potidaea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Potidaia”
- Norwegian: “Potidaia”
- Persian: “پوتیدایا”
- Polish: “Potidaja”
- Portuguese: “Potideia”
- Romanian: “Potideea”
- Romanian: “Potideia”
- Russian: “Кассандрия”
- Russian: “Потидея”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Potideja”
- Slovenian: “Nea Potidaia”
- Slovenian: “Nea Potidea”
- Slovenian: “Potidaia”
- Slovenian: “Potideja”
- Spanish: “Potidea”
- Swedish: “Potidaia”
- Swedish: “Potidea”
- Tamil: “பொடிடேயா”
- Turkish: “Potidaea”
- Turkish: “Potidaia”
- Turkish: “Potidea”
- Ukrainian: “Потідея”
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Notable Places Nearby
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