Kissamos
Kissamos is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Kasteli Kissamou”, “Kastelli Kissamou”, “Kastéllion”, and “Kisamos”
- Postal code: 73400
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Kissamos and Kasteli of Kissamos.
Archaeological Museum Kissamos
Building
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Archaeological Museum Kissamos is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drapanias and Pollyrinia.
Drapanias
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Drapanias is a small village in Chania regional unit in northwestern Crete. It is the principal town in the Cretan municipality of Mythimna. It was built in the ruins of the ancient town of Mythimna.
Pollyrinia
Village
Polyrrhenia or Polyrrenia, Polyrrhen or Polyrren or Polyren, or Pollyrrhenia or Pollyrrenia, or Polyrrenion or Polyrrhenium, was a town and polis in the northwest of ancient Crete, whose territory occupied the whole western extremity of the island, extending from north to south. Pollyrinia is situated 4½ km south of Kissamos.
Potamida
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Potamida is a village, which is situated 4 km southeast of Kissamos.
Kissamos
Latitude
35.4933° or 35° 29′ 36″ northLongitude
23.6595° or 23° 39′ 34″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR KISOpen location code
8G75FMV5+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 247916299OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zulu—“Kissamos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kisamosi”
- Arabic: “كيساموس”
- Armenian: “Կիսամոս”
- Asturian: “Kissamos”
- Bulgarian: “Кисамос”
- Catalan: “Kíssamos”
- Cebuano: “Kíssamos”
- Chinese: “基萨莫斯”
- Chinese: “基薩莫斯”
- Dutch: “Kissamos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيساموس”
- Estonian: “Kíssamos”
- Finnish: “Kissamos”
- Finnish: “Kíssamos”
- French: “Kastélli-Kissámou”
- French: “Kastélli”
- French: “Kísamos”
- French: “Kissamos”
- French: “Kíssamos”
- German: “Kasteli Kissamou”
- German: “Kissamos”
- German: “Kíssamos”
- Greek: “Καστέλι Κισάμου”
- Greek: “Καστέλι”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι Κισσάμου”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι”
- Greek: “Κίσαμος”
- Greek: “Κίσσαμος Χανίων”
- Greek: “Κίσσαμος”
- Greek: “Κισσάμου”
- Italian: “Chisamo”
- Italian: “Chissamo”
- Italian: “Kissamos”
- Japanese: “キサモス”
- Japanese: “キッサモス”
- Latin: “Cisamus”
- Latin: “Cissamus”
- Lithuanian: “Kisamas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kíssamos”
- Persian: “کیساموس”
- Polish: “Kisamos”
- Polish: “Kissamos”
- Portuguese: “Castéli Cissámou”
- Portuguese: “Castéli-Cissámou”
- Portuguese: “Castelli”
- Portuguese: “Castélli”
- Portuguese: “Císsamos”
- Portuguese: “Kastelii”
- Portuguese: “Kastélii”
- Portuguese: “Kastélli Kissámou”
- Portuguese: “Kísamos”
- Portuguese: “Kissamos”
- Portuguese: “Kíssamos”
- Russian: “Кисамос”
- Spanish: “Castelli”
- Spanish: “Kastelli”
- Spanish: “Kastélli”
- Spanish: “Kísamos”
- Spanish: “Kissamos”
- Spanish: “Kíssamos”
- Swedish: “Kastelli-Kissamos”
- Swedish: “Kastelli”
- Swedish: “Kissamos”
- Turkish: “Kisamu”
- Urdu: “کیساموس”
- Vietnamese: “Kissamos”
- Zulu: “Kissamos”
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