Ierissos
Ierissos is a small town on the east coast of the Akti peninsula in Chalkidiki, Greece. It is located 115 km from Thessaloniki, and 10 km from the border of the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, or Mount Athos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,050 residents
- Description: town in Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece
- Also known as: “Hierissos” and “Ierisós”
- Historically known as: “Erissos”
- Postal code: 63075
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akanthos.
Akanthos
Archaeological site
Photo: Christaras A, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akanthos was an ancient Greek city on the Athos peninsula, on the narrow neck of land between the sacred mountain and the mainland, to the northwest of the Xerxes Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nea Roda.
Nea Roda
Village
Photo: Chryspan, Public domain.
Nea Roda is a village 115 km southeast of Thessaloniki, on the narrowest point of the Athos peninsula in the municipality of Stagira-Akanthos, Chalkidiki, Greece. Nea Roda is situated 4½ km southeast of Ierissos.
Ierissos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Aristotelis, Northern Chalkidiki, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.3979° or 40° 23′ 53″ northLongitude
23.8776° or 23° 52′ 39″ eastPopulation
3,050Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR IESOpen location code
8GG59VXH+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 130167618OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Ierissos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيريسوس”
- Armenian: “Իերիսոս”
- Asturian: “Ierissos”
- Bulgarian: “Йерисос”
- Catalan: “Ierissos”
- Chinese: “伊里索斯”
- Chinese: “耶里索斯”
- Dutch: “Ierissos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايريسوس”
- Finnish: “Ierissós”
- French: “Ierissos”
- French: “Ierissós”
- German: “Ierissos”
- Greek: “Ιερισσός”
- Irish: “Ierissos”
- Italian: “Ierissos”
- Japanese: “イエリソス”
- Macedonian: “Ерисо”
- Macedonian: “Ерисово”
- Macedonian: “Јерисос”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ierissos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ierissós”
- Persian: “ایریسوس”
- Romanian: “Ieriso”
- Russian: “Гиерис”
- Russian: “Иерисос”
- Serbian: “Ierisos”
- Serbian: “Иерисос”
- Serbian: “Јерисос”
- Swedish: “Ierissos”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ierissos”. Photo: Αλέξανδρος, CC BY-SA 2.0.