Ithaca
Ithaca, also Ithaki or Ithaka, is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Alexandros Gabrielsen, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: Greek island in the Ionian Sea
- Also known as: “Ithaca Island”, “Ithaki”, and “Nísos Itháki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alalkomenés.
Alalkomenés
Archaeological site
Alalcomenae or Alalkomenai, or Alcomenae or Alkomenai, was a town in Ithaca, or in the small island Asteris in the neighbourhood of Ithaca. Its site is located at the palaiokastro on modern Aëtos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vathy and Aetos.
Vathy
Town
Photo: Belteshassar, CC BY 4.0.
Vathy or Vathi is the largest settlement on the Greek Ionian island of Ithaca and the seat of the Ithaca regional unit. It is located in the southern part of the island, in a deep natural harbour.
Ithaca
- Categories: polis and landform
- Location: Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Ithaca from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Ithaca” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Itaka”
- Albanian: “Ithaka”
- Arabic: “إثاكا”
- Arabic: “إيثاكا”
- Armenian: “Իթակե”
- Azerbaijani: “İtaka”
- Basque: “Itaka”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ітака”
- Belarusian: “Ітака”
- Breton: “Itaka”
- Bulgarian: “Итака”
- Catalan: “Itaca”
- Catalan: “Ítaca”
- Catalan: “Ithaca”
- Cebuano: “Ithaca Island”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیتاکا”
- Chinese: “伊塔刻岛”
- Chinese: “伊法基島”
- Chinese: “伊萨基岛”
- Chinese: “伊薩卡島”
- Chinese: “伊薩基島”
- Croatian: “Itaka”
- Czech: “Ithaka”
- Danish: “Ithaka”
- Dutch: “Ithaka”
- Dutch: “Ithake”
- Dutch: “Itháke”
- Dutch: “Ithaki”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايثاكا”
- Esperanto: “Itako”
- Estonian: “Ithaka”
- Estonian: “Itháki”
- Finnish: “Ithaka”
- French: “Ithaque”
- French: “Theaki”
- French: “Théaki”
- Galician: “Ítaca”
- Galician: “Ιθάκη”
- Georgian: “ითაკა”
- German: “Itaka”
- German: “Ithaka”
- German: “Íthaka”
- German: “Ithaki”
- Greek: “Itháki”
- Greek: “Nisí Itháki”
- Greek: “Ιθάκη”
- Greek: “Νησί Ιθάκη”
- Hebrew: “איתקה”
- Hungarian: “Itháki”
- Ido: “Insulo Itaka”
- Ido: “Itaka”
- Indonesian: “Ithaca”
- Indonesian: “Ithaki”
- Irish: “Iotaca”
- Italian: “Itaca”
- Italian: “Ithaka”
- Italian: “Ithaki”
- Japanese: “イタカ島”
- Japanese: “イタカ県”
- Japanese: “イタキ”
- Japanese: “イタキ島”
- Japanese: “イタキ県”
- Japanese: “イタケ”
- Japanese: “イタケー”
- Japanese: “イタケー島”
- Japanese: “イタケ島”
- Japanese: “イタケ県”
- Korean: “이타카”
- Korean: “이타카섬”
- Korean: “이타키 섬”
- Korean: “이타키”
- Kurdish: “Îtakê”
- Latin: “Ithaca”
- Latvian: “Itaka”
- Lithuanian: “Itakė”
- Macedonian: “Итака”
- Marathi: “इथका”
- Marathi: “इथाका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Itaka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ithaka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ithaca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ithaka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ithaki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Itháki”
- Norwegian: “Ithaka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Itaca”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iþacige”
- Ossetian: “Итакæ”
- Persian: “ایتاکا، یونان”
- Persian: “ایتاکا”
- Polish: “Itaka”
- Portuguese: “Ítaca”
- Portuguese: “Ithaki”
- Romanian: “Itaca”
- Romanian: “Ithaca”
- Romanian: “Ithaka”
- Russian: “Итака”
- Russian: “Итаку”
- Scots: “Ithaca”
- Serbian: “Itaka”
- Serbian: “Итака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Itaka”
- Slovak: “Ithaka”
- Slovenian: “Itaka”
- Spanish: “Itaca”
- Spanish: “Ítaca”
- Spanish: “Ithaka”
- Spanish: “Ithaki”
- Swedish: “Itaka”
- Swedish: “Ithaka”
- Swedish: “Ithaki”
- Swedish: “Ithakí”
- Swedish: “Val di Conspare”
- Tamil: “இத்தாக்கா”
- Turkish: “Fiaki”
- Turkish: “İtakhe”
- Turkish: “İtakiya”
- Turkish: “İthaca”
- Turkish: “İthaka Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Ітака”
- Urdu: “اتھاکا”
- Vietnamese: “Ithaki”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ithaka”
- Welsh: “Ithaca”
- Welsh: “Ithaki”
- Western Armenian: “Իթաքի”
- Wu Chinese: “伊萨基岛”
- Yue Chinese: “伊法基島”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Ithaca”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Agios Ioannis and Lefki.
Kefalonia: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Argostoli, Fiskardo, Skala, and Leivathos.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. 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 “Ithaca”. Photo: Alexandros Gabrielsen, CC BY 2.0.