Chalcis
Chalcis is the biggest city of the island of Evvia in Sterea Hellada. It is the capital of the Prefecture of Evvia. Through the Middle Ages the city was a Venetian fortress, known as "Negroponte".
- Type: City with 59,100 residents
- Description: Greek city in Central Greece region
- Also known as: “Bataille au large de Chalcis”, “Càlcida”, “Cálcide”, “Calcide Eubea”, “Calcidesi”, “Calcidia”, “Calcidicos”, “Calcídicos”, “Chalkhida”, “Chalkida”, “Chalkída”, “Chalkis (Řecko)”, “Egripos”, “Eurip”, “Euripos”, “Halkidha”, “Halkídha”, “Halkís”, “Halkísz”, “Khalkida”, “Khalkís”, “Khalkisz”, “Negrepont”, “Калкис”, “Негропонте”, “Халкіс”, “חלקידה”, “חלקיס”, “خالكيس”, “خلقيذة”, “خلكيس”, “كالكيس، إففويا”, “คัลคีส”, “칼키다”, “칼키스”, “カルキス”, “卡尔息斯”, and “尤里普斯”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Castle Karampampas and Chalkida.
Chalkida
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xirovrysi and Kanithos.
Chalcis
- Category: locality
- Location: Chalcis, Euboea, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.4623° or 38° 27′ 44″ north
Longitude
23.5946° or 23° 35′ 41″ east
Population
59,100
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
8GC5FH6V+WR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Chalcis” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kalkidha”
- Arabic: “خلقيس”
- Arabic: “خلكيذا”
- Aragonese: “Calcis”
- Armenian: “Խալկիդա”
- Asturian: “Chalkida”
- Azerbaijani: “Xalkida”
- Basque: “Kalkis”
- Belarusian: “Халкіда”
- Belarusian: “Халькіда”
- Bengali: “চাল্কিডা”
- Bulgarian: “Халкида”
- Catalan: “Calcis”
- Cebuano: “Chalkída”
- Cebuano: “Dimos Chalcis”
- Chinese: “哈尔基斯”
- Chinese: “哈爾基斯”
- Chuvash: “Халкида”
- Croatian: “Halkida”
- Czech: “Chalkis”
- Danish: “Chalkida”
- Dutch: “Chalkis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خالكيذا”
- Esperanto: “Ĥalkido”
- Estonian: “Chalkída”
- Finnish: “Chalkida”
- Finnish: “Chalkída”
- Finnish: “Khalkis”
- French: “Chalcis”
- Georgian: “ქალკიდა”
- Georgian: “ქალკისი”
- German: “Chalkida”
- Greek: “Chalkída”
- Greek: “Chalkís”
- Greek: “Χαλκίδα”
- Greek: “Χαλκίς”
- Gujarati: “ચલ્કીડા”
- Hebrew: “כלקיס”
- Hindi: “खाल्किस”
- Hungarian: “Chalcis”
- Hungarian: “Halkída”
- Ido: “Halkida”
- Indonesian: “Khalkis”
- Italian: “Calcide”
- Japanese: “ハルキス”
- Japanese: “ハルキダ”
- Kannada: “ಚಾಲ್ಕಿಡಾ”
- Korean: “할키다”
- Korean: “할키스”
- Latin: “Chalcis”
- Latvian: “Čalkida”
- Lithuanian: “Chalkidė”
- Macedonian: “Халкида”
- Malay: “Chalkida”
- Marathi: “चाल्किडा”
- Northern Frisian: “Chalkida”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khalkis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khalkída”
- Norwegian: “Khalkis”
- Persian: “خالکیس”
- Persian: “کالسیس”
- Polish: “Chalkida”
- Portuguese: “Cálcis”
- Romanian: “Chalkis”
- Russian: “Халкида”
- Russian: “Халкис”
- Scots: “Chalcis”
- Scots: “Chalkida”
- Serbian: “Halkida”
- Serbian: “Халкида”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halkida”
- Silesian: “Chalkida”
- Sinhala: “චල්කිදා”
- Slovak: “Chalkida”
- Slovenian: “Halkida”
- Spanish: “Calcis”
- Swedish: “Chalkis”
- Tajik: “Ҳалкида”
- Tamil: “கால்சிஸ்”
- Tamil: “சால்கிடா”
- Telugu: “ఛాల్కిదా”
- Thai: “คัลซีส”
- Tumbuka: “Chalcis”
- Turkish: “Halkida”
- Turkish: “Halkis”
- Ukrainian: “Халкіда”
- Urdu: “خالسیس”
- Vietnamese: “Chalcis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chalcis”
- Western Armenian: “Հալքիտա”
- Yue Chinese: “哈爾基斯”
- “Chalkída”
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