Kythira
Kythira is an island southeast of the Peloponnese. The island has unique beautiful natural areas. One of the most attractive sights in Kythira is the magnificent location Mills, a large valley with rich springs, streams, waterfalls, lakes, stone bridges and traditional watermills, amid lush vegetation of plane trees and Mediterranean plants.
- Type: Locality with 281 residents
- Description: Greek island in the Ionian Sea
- Also known as: “Cérigo”, “Cèrigo”, “Cherigo”, “Cítera”, “Citerea-Kythera”, “Çuha”, “Cytera”, “Cythare”, “Cythera”, “Cythere”, “Cythira”, “Đảo Cythera”, “Đảo Kythira”, “Isle of Cherigo”, “Kithera”, “Kitira”, “Kytera”, “Kýthera”, “Tsirigo”, “Tsirígo”, “Τσιρίγο”, “Кисира”, “Китсера”, “Китсира”, “Кифера”, “Кітіра”, “Кіфера”, “Цериго”, “Чериго”, “키테라”, “키티라”, “키티라 섬”, “キティラ”, “キテラ島”, “キュテーラ”, “キュテーラ島”, “キュテラ島”, and “シテール島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kapsali Bay lighthouse and Church of Christ Pantokratora.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kythera and Kapsali.
Kalamos
Hamlet
Kalamos is a village in the south east side of Kythira, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
Kythira
- Category: island
- Location: Kythera, Piraeus Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.1496° or 36° 8′ 58″ north
Longitude
22.9898° or 22° 59′ 23″ east
Population
281
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GR KIT
Open location code
8G844XXQ+RW
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Kythira” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cerigo”
- Albanian: “Kythira”
- Arabic: “كيثيرا”
- Armenian: “Կիտիրա”
- Basque: “Zitera”
- Belarusian: “Кітыра”
- Breton: “Kythera”
- Bulgarian: “Китира”
- Catalan: “Citera”
- Cebuano: “Cythera Island”
- Cebuano: “Kýthira”
- Central Kurdish: “کێتیرا”
- Chinese: “基西拉岛”
- Chinese: “基西拉島”
- Croatian: “Kitera”
- Czech: “Kythéra”
- Danish: “Kithira”
- Dutch: “Kythira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيثيرا”
- Esperanto: “Kitero”
- Estonian: “Kýthira saar”
- Estonian: “Kýthira”
- Finnish: “Kythera”
- French: “Cythère”
- Galician: “Citerea - Kythera”
- Galician: “Citerea”
- Georgian: “კითერა”
- German: “Kythira”
- Greek: “Kíthira”
- Greek: “Kýthira”
- Greek: “Κύθηρα”
- Hebrew: “קיתרה”
- Hungarian: “Kíthira”
- Indonesian: “Kythira”
- Italian: “Cerigo”
- Japanese: “キティラ島”
- Korean: “키티라섬”
- Latin: “Cythera”
- Lithuanian: “Kytira”
- Macedonian: “Китира”
- Northern Frisian: “Kythira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kythira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kýthira”
- Norwegian: “Kythira”
- Persian: “کیثیرا”
- Polish: “Kithira”
- Polish: “Kíthira”
- Portuguese: “Citera”
- Romanian: “Kythira”
- Russian: “Китира”
- Serbian: “Kitera”
- Serbian: “Китера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kitera”
- Slovak: “Kythira”
- Spanish: “Citera”
- Swedish: “Kythera”
- Turkish: “Çuha Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Кітера”
- Urdu: “کیتھیرا”
- Vietnamese: “Kythira”
- Western Armenian: “Քիթիրա (կղզի)”
- Western Armenian: “Քիթիրա”
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