Naxos
Naxos is the largest in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea and was the centre of ancient Cycladic culture. The most fertile of the Cyclades islands, Naxos earns much of its income from agriculture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Greek island in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Dia”, “Naxos Island”, “Nisi Naxos”, and “Nisos Naksos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Apano Kastro and Church of Panagia Protothronos.
Church of Panagia Protothronos
Church
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of Panagia Protothronos is located in the village of Halki in Tragaia, in the interior of Naxos island in Greece. The church is dedicated to the Annunciation, and was probably an early Christian basilica, of which only the synthronon and the episcopal throne in the semi-circular sanctuary conch survive.
Archaeological Collection of Apeiranthos
Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Archaeological Collection of Apeiranthos is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Small Cyclades and Filoti.
Small Cyclades
Small Cyclades, also known as Little Cyclades is a group of small islands in the central Aegean Sea in Greece.
Filoti
Village
Photo: Ji2mada2006, Public domain.
Filoti is a semi-mountainous village of central Naxos, Greece, with a population of 1,617 residents, located at the foot of Mt. Zas, at an altitude of 400 meters, about 18.2 kilometres from the city of Naxos.
Aperathos
Village
Photo: Yiannis Z., CC BY-SA 3.0.
Apeiranthos or Aperathos is a mountainous village on the island of Naxos in Greece. It is located 28 km north-east of the capital of the island, built on the foothill of mountain Fanari, on an altitude between 650 and 700 m.
Naxos
- Category: landform
- Location: Cyclades, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Naxos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Naksosi”
- Albanian: “Naxos”
- Arabic: “ناكسوس”
- Armenian: “Նակսոս”
- Armenian: “Նաքսոս”
- Basque: “Naxos”
- Belarusian: “Наксас”
- Bulgarian: “Наксос”
- Catalan: “Illa de Naxos”
- Catalan: “Naxos”
- Cebuano: “Nísos Náxos”
- Central Kurdish: “ناکسوس”
- Chinese: “勒索斯島”
- Chinese: “奈克索斯島”
- Chinese: “納克索斯島”
- Chinese: “纳克索斯岛”
- Chinese: “那克索斯岛”
- Croatian: “Naksos”
- Czech: “Naxos”
- Czech: “Náxos”
- Danish: “Naxos”
- Dutch: “Naxos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ناكسوس”
- Esperanto: “Naksoso”
- Estonian: “Náxos”
- Estonian: “Náxose saar”
- Faroese: “Naksos”
- Faroese: “Naxos”
- Faroese: “Νάξος”
- Finnish: “Naksos”
- Finnish: “Náxos”
- French: “Naxos”
- French: “Náxos”
- Galician: “Naxos Illa”
- Galician: “Naxos”
- German: “Áxia”
- German: “Naxia”
- German: “Náxia”
- German: “Naxos”
- German: “Náxos”
- German: “Strongyle”
- Greek: “Nisí Náxos”
- Greek: “Αξιά”
- Greek: “Νάξος”
- Greek: “Νάξου”
- Greek: “Νησί Νάξος”
- Greek: “Νήσος Νάξος”
- Hebrew: “נאכסוס”
- Hebrew: “נאקסוס”
- Hebrew: “נכסוס”
- Hebrew: “נקסוס”
- Hindi: “नक्सोस”
- Hungarian: “Naxosz”
- Hungarian: “Náxosz”
- Icelandic: “Naxos”
- Ido: “Insulo Naxos”
- Indonesian: “Naxos”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Naxos”
- Italian: “Isola di Naxos”
- Italian: “Nasso”
- Japanese: “ナクソス島”
- Japanese: “ナッソー島”
- Kannada: “ನಕ್ಸೋಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Наксос”
- Korean: “낙소스섬”
- Kurdish: “Naksos”
- Latin: “Naxos”
- Latvian: “Naksa”
- Limburgan: “Naxos”
- Lithuanian: “Naksas”
- Lithuanian: “Nakso sala”
- Macedonian: “Наксос”
- Malay: “Naxos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Naxos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Náxos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nakşa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nasso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Naxos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Náxos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Naxos”
- Norwegian: “Naxos”
- Ossetian: “Наксос”
- Persian: “ناکسوس”
- Polish: “Naksos”
- Polish: “Náxos”
- Portuguese: “Naxos”
- Romanian: “Naxos”
- Russian: “Наксос остров в Эгейском море”
- Russian: “Наксос, остров в Эгейском море”
- Russian: “Наксос”
- Russian: “Остров в Эгейском море Наксос”
- Serbian: “Naks”
- Serbian: “Naksos”
- Serbian: “Накс”
- Serbian: “Наксос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Naksos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Naksos”
- Sicilian: “Nassu”
- Slovak: “Naxos”
- Slovenian: “Naksos”
- Slovenian: “Naxos”
- Slovenian: “Náxos”
- Spanish: “Isla de Naxos”
- Spanish: “Naxos”
- Spanish: “Unidad periferica de Naxos”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Naxos”
- Swedish: “Naxos”
- Swedish: “Náxos”
- Swiss German: “Naxos”
- Tamil: “நக்சஸ் தீவு”
- Tamil: “நக்சஸ்”
- Tamil: “நட்சொசு”
- Thai: “Naxos”
- Thai: “เกาะนักซอส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Naxos”
- Turkish: “Nakşa”
- Turkish: “Naksos”
- Turkish: “Naxos”
- Ukrainian: “Наксос”
- Urdu: “ناکسوس”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Naxos”
- Vietnamese: “Naxos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Naxos”
- Welsh: “Naxos”
- Welsh: “Ynys Naxos”
- Western Armenian: “Նաքսոս”
- Wu Chinese: “纳克索斯岛”
- Yue Chinese: “勒索斯島”
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