Edessa
Edessa, known until 1923 as Vodena, is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 18,300 residents
- Description: city in Macedonia, Greece
- Also known as: “Edessa (Greece)”, “Edessa, Greece”, “Édessa, Greece”, “Édhessa”, “Vodena”, “Vodená”, and “Vodina”
- Address: Έδεσσα, 58200
- Postal code: 58200
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edessa Waterfalls and Edessa.
Edessa Waterfalls
Waterfall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Edessa Waterfalls or Edessis Waterfalls are located in Edessa city in Macedonia, Greece. The falls are a natural phenomenon that arose after a strong earthquake that struck the surrounding area in the 14th century.
Edessa
Railway station
The Edessa railway station is the railway station of Edessa in Central Macedonia, Greece. The station is located north of the city on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway, and is severed by the Thessaloniki Regional Railway.
Yeni Mosque, Edessa
Mosque
Photo: Протогер, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Yeni Mosque is a former mosque in the town of Edessa, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. Completed in the 17th century during the Ottoman era, the mosque was abandoned in 1912 following the Balkan Wars.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mesimeri and Ekklisiochori.
Varosi
Quarter
Photo: Кочев, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Varosi is an old neighbourhood of Edessa, in Central Macedonia, Greece.
Edessa
- Category: locality
- Location: Edessa, Pella, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8009° or 40° 48′ 3″ northLongitude
22.0504° or 22° 3′ 1″ eastPopulation
18,300Elevation
312 metres (1,024 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR EDEOpen location code
8GG4R322+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 130167081OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Edessa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vodena”
- Arabic: “إديسا، بيلا”
- Arabic: “إذيسا”
- Arabic: “الرها”
- Armenian: “Էդեսա”
- Asturian: “Edessa”
- Basque: “Edessa”
- Bengali: “এডেসা”
- Bulgarian: “Воден”
- Catalan: “Bodena”
- Catalan: “Edesa”
- Catalan: “Edessa”
- Catalan: “Vodena”
- Catalan: “Vodine”
- Cebuano: “Édessa”
- Chinese: “埃泽萨”
- Chinese: “埃澤薩”
- Chinese: “艾德莎”
- Church Slavic: “Водьнъ”
- Croatian: “Edessa”
- Czech: “Edessa (Greece)”
- Czech: “Edessa”
- Danish: “Edessa”
- Dutch: “Edessa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اذيسا”
- Estonian: “Édessa”
- Finnish: “Edessa”
- Finnish: “Édessa”
- French: “Edessa”
- French: “Édessa”
- French: “Edhessa”
- French: “Vodena”
- French: “Vodina”
- German: “Dimos Edessa”
- German: “Edessa (Greece)”
- German: “Edessa”
- German: “Voden”
- Greek: “Édessa”
- Greek: “Βοδενά”
- Greek: “Έδεσσα”
- Gujarati: “એડેસા”
- Hindi: “एदेस्सा”
- Hungarian: “Édesza”
- Hungarian: “Έδεσσα”
- Indonesian: “Edessa”
- Italian: “Edessa”
- Japanese: “ヴォデナ”
- Japanese: “エデッサ”
- Japanese: “ボデナ”
- Kannada: “ಎಡೆಸ್ಸಾ”
- Kazakh: “Эдеса”
- Korean: “에데사”
- Latvian: “Edesa”
- Lithuanian: “Edesa”
- Macedonian: “Воден”
- Malay: “Edessa”
- Marathi: “एडेसा”
- Moksha: “Эдэсса”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edessa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Edessa i Hellas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Édessa i Hellas”
- Persian: “ادسا”
- Polish: “Edesa”
- Pontic: “Έδεσσα”
- Portuguese: “Edessa”
- Romanian: “Edessa, Grecia”
- Romanian: “Edessa”
- Russian: “Эдеса”
- Russian: “Эдесса”
- Scots: “Edessa”
- Serbian: “Voden”
- Serbian: “Έδεσσα”
- Serbian: “Воден”
- Serbian: “Едеса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Edesa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Edessa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Voden”
- Sinhala: “එඩෙසා”
- Slovak: “Edessa”
- Slovenian: “Edesa”
- Slovenian: “Edessa”
- Slovenian: “Έδεσσα”
- Spanish: “Edessa”
- Spanish: “Édessa”
- Swedish: “Edessa, Grekland”
- Swedish: “Edessa”
- Swedish: “Édessa”
- Tamil: “ஏடேசா”
- Telugu: “ఎడెస్సా”
- Thai: “อีเดสซา”
- Turkish: “Voden”
- Turkish: “Vodina”
- Ukrainian: “Едеса”
- Urdu: “ایدیسا، یونان”
- Vietnamese: “Edessa, Hy Lạp”
- Vietnamese: “Edessa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Edessa, Gresya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Edessa”
- Western Armenian: “Էդեսա”
- Yue Chinese: “艾德莎”
- “Vodina”
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