Milos

Milos is a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the group. The island is famous for the Venus de Milo, a statue of Aphrodite, now in the Louvre.
  • Locality with about 820 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 750 metres (2,450 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code MLO
  • Description: island of the Cyclades, Greece
  • Also known as
    “Melos”
    “Melus”
    “Mint of Melos”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Milos and Catacombs of Trypiti.
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Museum
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The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground…
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Adamantas and Plaka.
Adamas is the harbour town of Milos island.
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Town
is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the group.
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Latitude
36.7454° or 36° 44′ 43″ north
Longitude
24.4265° or 24° 25′ 35″ east
Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Milos” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Milos”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μῆλος”
  • Arabic: “ميلوس، كيكلاديس”
  • Arabic: “ميلوس”
  • Armenian: “Միլոս”
  • Basque: “Milos”
  • Belarusian: “Мілас”
  • Breton: “Melos”
  • Breton: “Milo”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелос”
  • Bulgarian: “Милос”
  • Catalan: “Melos”
  • Catalan: “Milo”
  • Catalan: “Milos”
  • Cebuano: “Milos Island”
  • Chinese: “米洛斯岛”
  • Chinese: “米洛斯島”
  • Corsican: “Milu”
  • Croatian: “Milos”
  • Czech: “Milos”
  • Danish: “Melos”
  • Danish: “Milos”
  • Dutch: “Mélos”
  • Dutch: “Milos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلوس”
  • Esperanto: “Meloso”
  • Finnish: “Melos”
  • Finnish: “Mílos”
  • French: “Mélos”
  • French: “Milos”
  • Galician: “Milos - Μήλος”
  • Galician: “Milos”
  • Georgian: “მილოსი”
  • German: “Mélos”
  • German: “Millo”
  • German: “Milo”
  • German: “Mílos”
  • German: “Profitis Ilias”
  • Greek: “Μήλος”
  • Hebrew: “מילוס”
  • Hebrew: “מלוס”
  • Hungarian: “Mílosz”
  • Icelandic: “Mílos”
  • Indonesian: “Milos”
  • Irish: “Méileas”
  • Italian: “Milo”
  • Italian: “Milos”
  • Japanese: “ミロス”
  • Japanese: “ミロス島”
  • Japanese: “メーロス島”
  • Japanese: “メロス島”
  • Korean: “멜로스 섬”
  • Korean: “멜로스”
  • Korean: “밀로”
  • Korean: “밀로스”
  • Korean: “밀로스섬”
  • Latin: “Melos”
  • Latvian: “Mila”
  • Lithuanian: “Milas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mílos”
  • Macedonian: “Милос”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mílos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mílos”
  • Norwegian: “Milos”
  • Persian: “میلوس”
  • Polish: “Melos”
  • Polish: “Milos”
  • Portuguese: “Milos”
  • Romanian: “Insula Milos”
  • Romanian: “Milos”
  • Russian: “Милос”
  • Serbian: “Milos”
  • Serbian: “Милос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Milos”
  • Sicilian: “Milos”
  • Sicilian: “Milu”
  • Slovenian: “Milos”
  • Spanish: “Cefiria”
  • Spanish: “Melos”
  • Spanish: “Milo”
  • Spanish: “Milos”
  • Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Milo”
  • Swedish: “Melos”
  • Swedish: “Milos”
  • Tamil: “மிலொசு”
  • Tamil: “மெலோஸ்”
  • Turkish: “Değirmenlik, Yunanistan”
  • Turkish: “Değirmenlik”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелос”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілос”
  • Urdu: “میلوس”
  • Vietnamese: “Milos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Milos”
  • Western Armenian: “Միլոս”
  • Yue Chinese: “米洛斯”

Localities in the Area

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Cyclades: Highlights

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