Milos
Milos is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group. The island is famous for the Venus de Milo, a statue of Aphrodite, now in the Louvre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 819 residents
- Description: island of the Cyclades, Greece
- Also known as: “Melos” and “Melus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Milos and Catacombs of Trypiti.
Archaeological Museum of Milos
Museum
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The Archaeological Museum of Milos is a museum in Plaka on the island of Milos, in Greece. Its collections include exhibits dating from the late Neolithic to the Byzantine period.
Catacombs of Trypiti
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The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades, Greece, dating to the 1st-5th century AD.
Ancient theatre of Milos
Theater building
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Ancient theatre of Milos is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adamantas and Plaka.
Adamantas
Town
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Adamas is the harbour town of Milos island. It has a population of 1,268 people. Highlights include the French cemetery, used in the years of the Crimean war; the 600-year-old church of the Holy Trinity; the Milos Mining Museum; and the Maritime Museum.
Plaka
Town
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Plaka is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group. It is perched on the top of large rock, overlooking the gulf of Milos. No cars can enter the village because of the narrow spaces between walls and buildings.
Tripiti
Village
Trypiti is a small town in the island of Milos, Greece. Population 766. It is famous for being located next to the Milos Catacombs and the Roman theatre.
Milos
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Cyclades, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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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”
- Chinese: “米洛斯岛”
- Chinese: “米洛斯島”
- Corsican: “Milu”
- Croatian: “Milos”
- Czech: “Milos”
- Danish: “Milos”
- Dutch: “Melos”
- Dutch: “Mélos”
- Dutch: “Milos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميلوس”
- Esperanto: “Meloso”
- Finnish: “Melos”
- Finnish: “Milos”
- Finnish: “Mílos”
- French: “Mélos”
- French: “Milos”
- Galician: “Milos - Μήλος”
- Galician: “Milos-Μήλος”
- Galician: “Milos”
- Georgian: “მილოსი”
- German: “Melos”
- German: “Mélos”
- German: “Millo”
- German: “Milo”
- German: “Milos”
- 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: “Milos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mílos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Milos”
- 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 periferica de Milo”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Milo”
- Swedish: “Melos”
- Swedish: “Milos”
- Tamil: “மிலொசு”
- Tamil: “மெலோஸ்”
- Turkish: “Değirmenlik, Yunanistan”
- Turkish: “Değirmenlik”
- Ukrainian: “Мелос”
- Ukrainian: “Мілос”
- Vietnamese: “Milos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Milos”
- Western Armenian: “Միլոս”
- Yue Chinese: “米洛斯”
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