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Marathon

Marathon is a village near the sea in Athens metropolitan area, about 40 km from the center of . The town's name derives from a local fennel herb that grows in the area.
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  • Type: Town with 8,880 residents
  • Description: modern town in Attica, Greece
  • Also known as: “Marathon, Greece” and “Marathóna”
  • Postal code: 19007

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kotroni Airport and Marathon Run Museum.

Aerodrome
is a small airport situated west of Marathonas, . It has one of the smallest runways in the world. Both runways are mostly used by helicopters because Kotroni is normally a base for the Hellenic Navy Helicopter Command.

Museum
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tower
Photo: annysuomo, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vranas and Vothonas.

Hamlet
Photo: annysuomo, CC BY 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km south of Marathon.

Hamlet
Photo: annysuomo, CC BY 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Marathon.

Marathon

Latitude
38.1533° or 38° 9′ 12″ north
Longitude
23.9621° or 23° 57′ 44″ east
Population
8,880
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
8GC55X36+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1855562711
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
257717
Wiki­data ID
Q212150
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Welsh—“Marathon” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μαραθών”
  • Arabic: “ماراثون، أتيكي”
  • Arabic: “ماراثوناس”
  • Armenian: “Մարաթոն”
  • Asturian: “Marathon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marafon şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marafon”
  • Basque: “Maratoi”
  • Basque: “Maraton”
  • Bulgarian: “Маратон”
  • Catalan: “Marathonas”
  • Catalan: “Marató”
  • Cebuano: “Marathónas”
  • Chinese: “馬拉松”
  • Chinese: “马拉松”
  • Croatian: “Maraton, Grčka”
  • Croatian: “Maraton”
  • Czech: “Marathón”
  • Danish: “Marathon”
  • Dutch: “Marathon”
  • Dutch: “Marathonas”
  • Dutch: “Marathónas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماراثوناس”
  • Esperanto: “Maratono”
  • Finnish: “Marathon”
  • French: “Marathon”
  • German: “Marathon”
  • Greek: “Μαραθών”
  • Greek: “Μαραθώνας Αττικής”
  • Greek: “Μαραθώνας”
  • Hebrew: “מארה”
  • Hebrew: “מרתון”
  • Hungarian: “Marathon”
  • Hungarian: “Marathón”
  • Icelandic: “Maraþon”
  • Indonesian: “Marathon, Yunani”
  • Indonesian: “Marathon”
  • Irish: “Maratón, An Ghréig”
  • Italian: “Maratona”
  • Japanese: “マラトーン”
  • Japanese: “マラトナス”
  • Japanese: “マラトン”
  • Korean: “마라톤”
  • Kurdish: “Maraton”
  • Latin: “Marathon”
  • Latvian: “Maratona”
  • Lithuanian: “Maratonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marathon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marathón”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marathonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marathónas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marathonbukta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marathónas”
  • Norwegian: “Marathon”
  • Persian: “ماراتن”
  • Piemontese: “Maraton-a”
  • Polish: “Maraton”
  • Portuguese: “Marathónas”
  • Portuguese: “Maratona”
  • Romanian: “Marathon (Grecia)”
  • Romanian: “Marathon”
  • Romanian: “Maraton”
  • Russian: “Марафон”
  • Scots: “Maraton”
  • Serbian: “Maraton”
  • Serbian: “Маратон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maraton”
  • Slovak: “Maratón”
  • Slovenian: “Maraton, Grčija”
  • Slovenian: “Maraton”
  • Spanish: “Marathón”
  • Spanish: “Maraton”
  • Spanish: “Maratón”
  • Swedish: “Marathon”
  • Swiss German: “D Gmäind Marathon in Griecheland”
  • Tamil: “மாரத்தான், கிரேக்கம்”
  • Tamil: “மாரத்தான்”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Marathon”
  • Turkish: “Maraton, Yunanistan”
  • Ukrainian: “Маратон”
  • Ukrainian: “Марафон”
  • Urdu: “میراتھن، یونان”
  • Vietnamese: “Marathon, Hy Lạp”
  • Welsh: “Marathon, Groeg”
  • Welsh: “Marathon”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Marathon”. Photo: Isidora Kyriazi, CC BY-SA 4.0.