Northern Greece
Epirus
Preveza

Preveza

Preveza is a town in with a charming location, a beautiful promenade, some remarkable fortifications, and the harbour.
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  • Type: City with 19,100 residents
  • Description: city of Epirus, Greece
  • Postal code: 48100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of Saint George and Pantocrator Castle.

Castle
Photo: Frédéric Boissonnas, Public domain.
St. George's Castle is an Ottoman fortification located in the city of Preveza, northwestern . It was built in 1807, during the rule of Ali Pasha of Ioannina over the region, and it was constructed on plans drawn by the French engineer Frédéric François Guillaume de Vaudoncourt.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Church
Photo: Harrygouvas, CC BY-SA 3.0 gr.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agios Thomas.

Village
is a coastal settlement at the southernmost tip of the prefecture of Preveza in . It is approximately 6 km and is set in an agricultural area, but also has a busy harbour.

Preveza

Latitude
38.9572° or 38° 57′ 26″ north
Longitude
20.7516° or 20° 45′ 6″ east
Population
19,100
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
PVK
United Nations Location Code
GR PVK
Open location code
8GC2XQ42+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 139648176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
254698
Wiki­data ID
Q213898
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Preveza” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Preveza”
  • Albanian: “Prevezë”
  • Arabic: “بروزة”
  • Arabic: “بريفيزا”
  • Armenian: “Պրևեզա”
  • Asturian: “Preveza”
  • Bashkir: “Превеза”
  • Basque: “Preveza”
  • Bengali: “প্রেভেজা”
  • Bulgarian: “Превеза”
  • Catalan: “Prevesa”
  • Catalan: “Prévesa”
  • Catalan: “Préveza”
  • Cebuano: “Préveza”
  • Chinese: “普雷韋扎”
  • Chinese: “普雷韦扎”
  • Chuvash: “Превеза”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Preveza”
  • Croatian: “Preveza”
  • Czech: “Preveza”
  • Danish: “Preveza”
  • Dutch: “Preveza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروزه”
  • Esperanto: “Prevezo”
  • Estonian: “Préveza”
  • Finnish: “Préveza”
  • French: “Preveza”
  • French: “Préveza”
  • French: “Prévéza”
  • German: “Prevesa”
  • German: “Preveza”
  • Greek: “Préveza”
  • Greek: “Πρέβεζα”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રેવેઝા”
  • Hebrew: “פרבזה”
  • Hindi: “प्रेवेज़”
  • Hungarian: “Préveza”
  • Indonesian: “Preveza”
  • Italian: “Prevesa”
  • Italian: “Preveza”
  • Japanese: “プレヴェザ”
  • Japanese: “プレヴェザ県”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರೆವೆಝ”
  • Korean: “프레베자”
  • Latin: “Prebeza”
  • Latvian: “Preveza”
  • Lithuanian: “Prevezos nomas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Preveza”
  • Macedonian: “Превеза”
  • Malay: “Preveza”
  • Marathi: “प्रीवझा”
  • Moksha: “Прэвэза”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Preveza prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Préveza prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Preveza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Préveza”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “پروزه”
  • Persian: “پروزا”
  • Polish: “Preweza”
  • Portuguese: “Preveza”
  • Romanian: “Preveza”
  • Russian: “Превеза”
  • Scots: “Preveza”
  • Serbian: “Preveza”
  • Serbian: “Превеза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Prevez”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Preveza”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රවේසා”
  • Slovenian: “Preveza”
  • Spanish: “Preveza”
  • Spanish: “Préveza”
  • Spanish: “Πρέβεζα”
  • Swedish: “Preveza”
  • Tamil: “பிரிவ்ஜா”
  • Telugu: “ప్రెవేజా”
  • Thai: “เพรียฟเซ”
  • Turkish: “Preveze”
  • Ukrainian: “Превеза”
  • Urdu: “پریویزا”
  • Vietnamese: “Preveza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Preveza”
  • Welsh: “Preveza”
  • “Πρέβεζα”

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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 “Preveza”. Photo: Harrygouvas, CC BY-SA 3.0.