Heraklion

Heraklion or Iraklio is the major city and capital of , the largest of the Greek islands. Its archaeological museum holds the remains of the 4000-year-old Minoan civilization, which centred on the nearby palace of Knossos, with its Minotaur legend.
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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: city in the island of Crete, Greece
  • Also known as: “Candia”, “Candie”, “Ērakleion”, “Heraclion”, “Iraclion”, “Irakleion”, “Iraklion”, “Khandax”, “Megalokastro”, “Megalokastron”, and “Κάντια”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Heraklion Archaeological Museum and Historical Museum of Crete.

Museum
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The is a museum located in Heraklion on . It is one of the largest museums in Greece, and the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of .

Museum
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The is a museum in Heraklion, . It was founded by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies in 1953 and was originally housed in the former home of Minos Kalokairinos.

Church
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The Agios Minas Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox cathedral in Heraklion, on the island of , , serving as the seat of the Archbishop of Crete. Ιt is dedicated to Saint Menas, the martyr and wonderworker, who is the patron saint of Heraklion.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nea Alikarnassos and Gazi.

Town
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is a town and a former municipality in the of , . It is located within the urban area of Heraklion and since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Heraklion, of which it is a municipal unit.

Town
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is a western suburb of Heraklion and a former municipality in the of in . Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

Village
Prassa is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on .

Heraklion

Latitude
35.3391° or 35° 20′ 21″ north
Longitude
25.1333° or 25° 7′ 60″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)
IATA airport code
HER
United Nations Location Codes
GR HER and GR NAI
Open location code
8G7784QM+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29438069
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
261745
Wiki­data ID
Q160544
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Heraklion” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Heraklion”
  • Albanian: “Iraklion”
  • Albanian: “Iraklioni”
  • Amharic: “ሄራክልዮን”
  • Amharic: “ኢራክልዮን”
  • Arabic: “إراكليون، إراكليون”
  • Arabic: “إيراكليو”
  • Arabic: “كاندية”
  • Arabic: “كانديه”
  • Arabic: “هيراقليون”
  • Arabic: “هيراكليون”
  • Aragonese: “Heraklion”
  • Aragonese: “Irákleio”
  • Armenian: “Հերակլիոն”
  • Asturian: “Heraclión”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heraklion”
  • Azerbaijani: “İraklion”
  • Bashkir: “Ираклион”
  • Basque: “Heraklion”
  • Belarusian: “Іракліён”
  • Belarusian: “Іракліян”
  • Bengali: “হেরাক্লিওন”
  • Bengali: “হেরাক্লিয়ন”
  • Breton: “Heraklion”
  • Bulgarian: “Ираклио”
  • Bulgarian: “Ираклион”
  • Bulgarian: “Кандия”
  • Bulgarian: “Хераклион”
  • Catalan: “Càndia”
  • Catalan: “Heràclion”
  • Catalan: “Heraklion”
  • Catalan: “Iràklio”
  • Catalan: “Iràklion”
  • Cebuano: “Irákleion”
  • Chechen: “Ираклион”
  • Chinese: “伊喇期利奧”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克利翁”
  • Chinese: “干地亚”
  • Chinese: “甘地亞”
  • Corsican: “Candia”
  • Corsican: “Candìa”
  • Corsican: “Iracliu”
  • Croatian: “Heraklion”
  • Czech: “Herákleion”
  • Czech: “Hérakleion”
  • Czech: “Heraklio”
  • Czech: “Heraklion”
  • Czech: “Heráklion”
  • Czech: “Iraklio”
  • Czech: “Iráklio”
  • Czech: “Iraklion”
  • Danish: “Heraklion”
  • Danish: “Iraklio”
  • Danish: “Iraklion”
  • Dutch: “Herákleion”
  • Dutch: “Heraklion”
  • Dutch: “Iraklion”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيراكليون”
  • Esperanto: “Iraklio”
  • Estonian: “Herakleion”
  • Estonian: “Irákleio”
  • Finnish: “Candia”
  • Finnish: “Herakleion”
  • Finnish: “Heraklion”
  • Finnish: “Iraklio”
  • Finnish: “Iraklion”
  • Finnish: “Kandia”
  • French: “Handax”
  • French: “Heraklion”
  • French: “Héraklion”
  • French: “Iraklio”
  • French: “Iráklio”
  • Galician: “Heraklion”
  • Georgian: “ჰერაკლიონი”
  • German: “Candia”
  • German: “Heraklion”
  • German: “Hieraklion”
  • German: “Iraklio”
  • German: “Iráklio”
  • German: “Iraklion”
  • German: “Iráklion”
  • German: “Kandiye”
  • Greek: “Ηράκλειο Κρήτης”
  • Greek: “Ηράκλειο”
  • Greek: “Χάνδακας”
  • Gujarati: “હેરાક્લિયોન”
  • Hebrew: “הירקליון”
  • Hebrew: “הרקליון”
  • Hebrew: “קנדיאה”
  • Hebrew: “קנדיה”
  • Hindi: “हेराक्लिओन”
  • Hungarian: “Candia”
  • Hungarian: “Hérakleion”
  • Hungarian: “Iráklio”
  • Hungarian: “Kandiye”
  • Hungarian: “Megalokasztro”
  • Hungarian: “Ηράκλειο”
  • Hungarian: “Ηράκλειον”
  • Ido: “Heraklion”
  • Indonesian: “Heraklion”
  • Indonesian: “Iraklion”
  • Interlingue: “Heraklion”
  • Irish: “Heraklion”
  • Italian: “Candia”
  • Italian: “Eraklion”
  • Italian: “Herakleion”
  • Italian: “Heraklio”
  • Italian: “Heraklion”
  • Italian: “Iraclio”
  • Italian: “Irakleio”
  • Italian: “Iraklio”
  • Italian: “Iraklion”
  • Italian: “Iráklion”
  • Japanese: “イラクリオ”
  • Japanese: “イラクリオン”
  • Japanese: “カンディア”
  • Japanese: “ヘラクリオン”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರಕ್ಲಿಯೋನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೇರಕ್ಲಿಯೇನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ïraklïon”
  • Kazakh: “Ираклион қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Ираклион”
  • Kazakh: “ىيراكلىيون”
  • Korean: “이라클리오”
  • Korean: “이라클리온”
  • Korean: “칸디아”
  • Korean: “헤라클레이온”
  • Korean: “헤라클리온”
  • Kurdish: “Herakliyon”
  • Latin: “Candia”
  • Latin: “Heracleum”
  • Latvian: “Heraklija”
  • Latvian: “Heraklion”
  • Latvian: “Heraklione”
  • Latvian: “Hēraklione”
  • Latvian: “Iraklija”
  • Latvian: “Iraklion”
  • Limburgan: “Irakleio”
  • Lithuanian: “Heraklionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Iraklionas”
  • Lombard: “Candia”
  • Lombard: “Eracli”
  • Lombard: “Heraklion”
  • Luxembourgish: “Iraklio”
  • Macedonian: “Ираклион”
  • Malay: “Heraklion”
  • Marathi: “हेराक्लायं”
  • Mongolian: “Ираклион”
  • Northern Frisian: “Iraklio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Candia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herakleion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heraklion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iraklio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iráklio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iraklion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Handaq”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herakleion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heraklion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iraklio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iráklio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iraklion”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandiye”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khandak”
  • Norwegian: “Iraklio”
  • Norwegian: “Iráklio”
  • Ossetian: “Ираклион”
  • Persian: “هراکلیون”
  • Piemontese: “Heraklion”
  • Polish: “Candia”
  • Polish: “Herakleon”
  • Polish: “Heraklion”
  • Polish: “Irakleio”
  • Polish: “Iraklio”
  • Polish: “Iraklion”
  • Polish: “Kandia”
  • Portuguese: “Candia”
  • Portuguese: “Cândia”
  • Portuguese: “Chandax”
  • Portuguese: “Eráclio”
  • Portuguese: “Heraclião”
  • Portuguese: “Herakleion”
  • Portuguese: “Heraklion”
  • Portuguese: “Heráklion”
  • Portuguese: “Iráclio”
  • Portuguese: “Irakleion”
  • Portuguese: “Iráklio”
  • Portuguese: “Iraklion”
  • Portuguese: “Iráklion”
  • Romanian: “Heraklion”
  • Romanian: “Irakleio”
  • Romanian: “Irakleion”
  • Romanian: “Iraklio”
  • Romanian: “Iraklion”
  • Russian: “Гераклион”
  • Russian: “Ираклио”
  • Russian: “Ираклион”
  • Russian: “Мегало Кастро”
  • Scots: “Heraklion”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Heraklion”
  • Serbian: “Heraklion”
  • Serbian: “Iraklion”
  • Serbian: “Ираклио”
  • Serbian: “Ираклион”
  • Serbian: “Хераклион”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heraklion”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Iraklion”
  • Sicilian: “Iraklio”
  • Sicilian: “Iraklion”
  • Silesian: “Heraklion”
  • Sinhala: “හෙරාක්ලියොන්”
  • Slovak: “Irakleio”
  • Slovak: “Iraklio”
  • Slovenian: “Heraklion”
  • Slovenian: “Iraklion”
  • Spanish: “Chandax”
  • Spanish: “Heraclion”
  • Spanish: “Heraclión”
  • Spanish: “Herakleion”
  • Spanish: “Heraklion”
  • Spanish: “Irakleio”
  • Spanish: “Irákleio”
  • Spanish: “Iraklio”
  • Spanish: “Iraklion”
  • Spanish: “Ηράκλειο”
  • Swedish: “Heraklio”
  • Swedish: “Heraklion”
  • Swedish: “Iraklion”
  • Tagalog: “Heraklion”
  • Tamil: “ஹெராக்ளியன்”
  • Telugu: “హెరక్లియాన్”
  • Thai: “Heraclion”
  • Thai: “Heraklion”
  • Thai: “อีราคลีออน”
  • Thai: “ฮีราคลีออน”
  • Thai: “เฮราคลิออน”
  • Turkish: “Heraklion”
  • Turkish: “Irakleio”
  • Turkish: “İraklion”
  • Turkish: “Kandiya”
  • Turkish: “Kandiye”
  • Ukrainian: “Геракліон”
  • Ukrainian: “Іракліон”
  • Ukrainian: “Кандія”
  • Urdu: “ایراکلیون”
  • Urdu: “کانڈیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Iraklion”
  • Venetian: “Candia”
  • Veps: “Iraklion”
  • Vietnamese: “Heraklion”
  • Volapük: “Iraklio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heraklion”
  • Welsh: “Heraklion”
  • Western Armenian: “Իրաքլիօ”
  • Western Armenian: “Հերաքլիոն”
  • Western Frisian: “Heraklion”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایراکلیون”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊拉克利翁”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊喇期利奧”
  • “Irákleio”
  • “Ηράκλειο”

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