Leros
Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens' port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Cmylonas, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Leros Island” and “Léros Island”
- Historically known as: “Lero Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pantelio Castle and Belenis tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lakki and Agia Marina.
Lakki
Village
Photo: KV 28, Public domain.
Lakki, known as Portolago until 1947, is a community on the Greek island of Leros, in the Dodecanese, at the head of Lakki Bay. The population was 2,093 at the 2021 census.
Leros
- Category: landform
- Location: Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Frisian—“Leros” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λέρος”
- Arabic: “ليروس”
- Breton: “Leros”
- Bulgarian: “Лерос”
- Catalan: “Leros”
- Cebuano: “Léros Island”
- Chinese: “萊羅斯島”
- Croatian: “Leros”
- Czech: “Leros”
- Danish: “Leros”
- Dutch: “Leros”
- Finnish: “Léros”
- French: “Leros”
- French: “Léros”
- Galician: “Leros - Λέρος”
- Galician: “Leros”
- German: “Leros”
- Greek: “Λέρος”
- Hebrew: “לרוס”
- Hungarian: “Lérosz”
- Indonesian: “Leros”
- Italian: “Isola di Lero”
- Italian: “Lero”
- Japanese: “レロス”
- Japanese: “レロス島”
- Latin: “Leros”
- Latin: “Lerus”
- Latvian: “Lera”
- Macedonian: “Лерос”
- Malagasy: “Leros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leros”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Léros”
- Norwegian: “Leros”
- Polish: “Leros”
- Portuguese: “Leros”
- Russian: “Лерос”
- Serbian: “Лерос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leros”
- Spanish: “Leros”
- Swedish: “Leros”
- Turkish: “İleryoz Ada”
- Turkish: “İleryoz”
- Turkish: “Leryos”
- Ukrainian: “Лерос”
- Vietnamese: “Leros”
- Western Armenian: “Լերոս”
- Western Frisian: “Leros”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Leros”. Photo: Cmylonas, Public domain.