Eretria
Eretria is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important Greek polis in the 6th and 5th century BC, mentioned by many famous writers and actively involved in significant historical events.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,100 residents
- Description: town in Euboea, Greece
- Also known as: “Nea Psara”
- Postal code: 34008
Photo: Glinard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Bdubosso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Eretria and Ancient theatre of Eretria.
Archaeological Museum of Eretria
Museum
Photo: Bdubosso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Eretria is a museum in Eretria, in the Euboea regional unit of Central Greece. The museum was established in 1960, but was enlarged between 1961 and 1962.
Ancient theatre of Eretria
Ruins
Photo: Bdubosso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ancient theatre of Eretria is a ruins.
Eretria
- Category: locality
- Location: Eretria, Euboea, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.3923° or 38° 23′ 32″ northLongitude
23.7953° or 23° 47′ 43″ eastPopulation
4,100Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR EREOpen location code
8GC59QRW+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 42174164OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Eretria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إرتريا”
- Assamese: “এৰিট্ৰিয়া”
- Asturian: “Eretria”
- Basque: “Eretria”
- Belarusian: “Эрэтрыя”
- Bulgarian: “Еретрия”
- Catalan: “Erètria”
- Cebuano: “Eretria”
- Cebuano: “Erétria”
- Chinese: “埃雷特里亚”
- Chinese: “埃雷特里亞”
- Croatian: “Eretrija”
- Dutch: “Eretria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اريتريا”
- Finnish: “Eretria”
- Finnish: “Erétria”
- French: “Eretrie”
- French: “Erétrie”
- French: “Érétrie”
- French: “Néa-Psara”
- Galician: “Eretria”
- Georgian: “ერეტრია”
- German: “Eretria”
- Greek: “Αρότρια”
- Greek: “Ερέτρια”
- Greek: “Νέα Ψαρά”
- Hebrew: “ארטריה”
- Indonesian: “Eretria”
- Italian: “Eretria”
- Japanese: “エレトリア”
- Korean: “에레트리아”
- Latin: “Eretria”
- Lithuanian: “Eretrija”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eretria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erétria”
- Norwegian: “Eretria”
- Persian: “ارتریا”
- Polish: “Eretria”
- Portuguese: “Erétria”
- Romanian: “Eretria (Evia)”
- Romanian: “Eretria”
- Romanian: “Nea Psara”
- Russian: “Арοтриа”
- Russian: “Еретриа”
- Russian: “Неа ПСара”
- Russian: “Эретрия”
- Serbian: “Eretrija”
- Serbian: “Еретрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eretrija”
- Slovak: “Eretria”
- Slovenian: “Eretria”
- Spanish: “Eretria”
- Swedish: “Eretria”
- Swedish: “Erétria”
- Tamil: “எரீட்ரியா”
- Tamil: “எரீத்திரியா”
- Turkish: “Eretria”
- Ukrainian: “Еретрія”
- Ukrainian: “Еритрея”
- Ukrainian: “Еритрія”
- Vietnamese: “Eretria”
- Welsh: “Eretria”
- Western Armenian: “Էրեթրիա”
- “Arótria”
- “Eretria”
- “Erétria”
- “Néa Psará”
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