Aegina
Aegina is one of the Saronic Gulf Islands, a triangle 11 km on each side. It's the closest island to Athens, reached in barely an hour by ferry, and in 2011 had a population of 13,056.Photo: Xocolatl, Public domain.
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: Greek island of the Saronic Gulf
- Also known as: “Ægina”, “Aegina Island”, “Aigina”, “Egina”, and “Engia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oros (Aigina) and Saint Nectarios.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portes and Palaiochora.
Portes
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portes is a Greek fishing village located on the east side of Aegina. It is about 28 km from the main town of Aegina. Behind the village is an agricultural plain with hills on the edges.
Palaiochora
Locality
Photo: Pbm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paliachora, also known as Palaia Chora and Palaiochora is an abandoned Medieval settlement on Aegina, one of the islands off the coast of Attica in Greece.
Aegina
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Aegina” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Aigina”
- Albanian: “Angjistri”
- Albanian: “Egjina”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἴγινα”
- Arabic: “أجانيط”
- Arabic: “أجانيطس”
- Arabic: “أيغينا”
- Armenian: “Էգինա”
- Asturian: “Egina”
- Azerbaijani: “Egina adası”
- Basque: “Egina”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Эгіна”
- Belarusian: “Эгіна”
- Breton: “Aigina”
- Bulgarian: “Егина”
- Catalan: “Egina”
- Catalan: “Senyoria d’Egina”
- Cebuano: “Aegina Island”
- Chinese: “厄吉那岛”
- Chinese: “埃伊納島”
- Chinese: “埃伊纳岛”
- Croatian: “Egina”
- Czech: “Aigina”
- Danish: “Ægina”
- Danish: “Aigina”
- Danish: “Égina”
- Dutch: “Aegina”
- Dutch: “Egina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اجانيطس”
- Esperanto: “Egino”
- Estonian: “Aigina saar”
- Estonian: “Aígina saar”
- Estonian: “Aigina”
- Estonian: “Aígina”
- Faroese: “Egina”
- Finnish: “Aegina”
- Finnish: “Aigina”
- Finnish: “Aígina”
- Finnish: “Egina”
- Finnish: “Ejina”
- Finnish: “Éjina”
- French: “Egine”
- French: “Égine”
- Galician: “Exina, Grecia”
- Galician: “Exina”
- Galician: “Αίγινα”
- Georgian: “ეგინა”
- German: “Ägina”
- German: “Aigina”
- German: “Egina”
- Greek: “Aígina”
- Greek: “Nisí Aígina”
- Greek: “Nísos Aígina”
- Greek: “Nísos Aíyina”
- Greek: “Αίγινα”
- Greek: “Νησί Αίγινα”
- Greek: “Νήσος Αίγινα”
- Hebrew: “אגינה”
- Hebrew: “איגיינה”
- Hebrew: “איגינה”
- Hebrew: “אייגינה”
- Hungarian: “Éjina”
- Ido: “Insulo Aigina”
- Indonesian: “Aegina”
- Italian: “Egina”
- Italian: “Enopia”
- Italian: “Isola di Egina”
- Japanese: “アイギーナ島”
- Japanese: “アイギナ”
- Japanese: “アイギナ島”
- Japanese: “アエギナ島”
- Japanese: “エイナ島”
- Japanese: “エギナ島”
- Japanese: “ツヅミクラゲ属”
- Korean: “에기나”
- Korean: “에기나섬”
- Kurdish: “Egîna”
- Latin: “Aegina Insula”
- Latin: “Aegina”
- Latvian: “Ejina”
- Macedonian: “Егина”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aegina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aigina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Egina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Égina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ejina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Éjina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aegina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ejina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Éjina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Αίγινα”
- Norwegian: “Egina”
- Norwegian: “Ejina”
- Persian: “ایجاینا”
- Polish: “Egina”
- Portuguese: “Aegina”
- Portuguese: “Egina”
- Portuguese: “Égina”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Egina”
- Romanian: “Aegina”
- Romanian: “Eghina”
- Romanian: “Egina”
- Russian: “Остров Эгина”
- Russian: “Эгина”
- Scots: “Aegina”
- Serbian: “Egina”
- Serbian: “Аихина”
- Serbian: “Егина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Egina”
- Sicilian: “Egina (isula)”
- Sicilian: “Egina”
- Slovak: “Aegina”
- Slovak: “Ejina”
- Slovenian: “Ajgina”
- Slovenian: “Egina”
- Spanish: “Egina”
- Spanish: “Isla de Egina”
- Swedish: “Egina”
- Swiss German: “Ägina”
- Tamil: “ஏஜினா”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ägina”
- Turkish: “Aegina Adası”
- Turkish: “Egine”
- Ukrainian: “Егіна”
- Ukrainian: “Енопія”
- Urdu: “ائجینا”
- Uzbek: “Aegina”
- Venetian: “Egina”
- Vietnamese: “Aegina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aegina (purô)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aegina”
- Welsh: “Aegina”
- Welsh: “Egina”
- Western Armenian: “Էղինա”
- Western Frisian: “Egina”
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