Pylos
Pylos, historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,100 residents
- Description: town in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece
- Also known as: “Navarino”, “Néon Kastrov”, and “Pílos”
- Postal code: 24001
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Pylos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gialova.
Gialova
Village
Photo: Geoandrios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gialova is a village on Navarino Bay in the municipality of Pylos-Nestor in the regional unit of Messenia in the south-west Peloponnese, Greece, about six kilometres north of Pylos. The name derives from Greek γιαλός and Turkish ova, i.e. "lowland shore". Gialova is situated 4 km north of Pylos.
Pylos
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Pylos-Nestoras, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.9138° or 36° 54′ 50″ northLongitude
21.6964° or 21° 41′ 47″ eastPopulation
2,100Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1354924356OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Pylos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pylos”
- Albanian: “Navarini”
- Arabic: “بيلوس”
- Armenian: “Պիլոս”
- Asturian: “Pilos”
- Azerbaijani: “Pilos”
- Basque: “Pilos”
- Basque: “Pylos”
- Belarusian: “Пілас”
- Breton: “Pilos”
- Breton: “Pylos”
- Bulgarian: “Пилос”
- Catalan: “Navarino”
- Catalan: “Pilos”
- Catalan: “Port Jonc”
- Cebuano: “Pýlos”
- Central Kurdish: “پیلۆس”
- Chinese: “派娄斯”
- Chinese: “皮洛斯”
- Chinese: “纳瓦林”
- Czech: “Navarino”
- Czech: “Neokastro”
- Czech: “Pylos”
- Czech: “Νεόκαστρο”
- Czech: “Πύλος”
- Danish: “Pylos”
- Dutch: “Pilos”
- Dutch: “Pylos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلوس”
- Esperanto: “Piloso”
- Esperanto: “Pylos”
- Finnish: “Pýlos”
- French: “Navarin”
- French: “Pylos”
- French: “Pýlos”
- Georgian: “პილოსი”
- German: “Navarin”
- German: “Navarino”
- German: “Pylos”
- Greek: “Ζόγκλος”
- Greek: “Ναβαρίνο”
- Greek: “Νεόκαστρο Μεσσηνίας”
- Greek: “Πύλος Μεσσηνίας”
- Greek: “Πύλος”
- Hebrew: “פילוס”
- Hungarian: “Pülosz”
- Ido: “Pilos”
- Indonesian: “Pylos”
- Italian: “Navarino”
- Japanese: “ピュロス”
- Javanese: “Pylos”
- Korean: “나바리노”
- Korean: “필로스”
- Latin: “Navarino”
- Latin: “Neocastrum”
- Latin: “Pylos”
- Latvian: “Pila (Grieķija)”
- Latvian: “Pila”
- Macedonian: “Наварино”
- Macedonian: “Пилос”
- Maltese: “Navarin”
- Maltese: “Navarín”
- Maltese: “Pilos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pylos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pýlos”
- Norwegian: “Pylos”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pylosfleot”
- Persian: “پیلوس (پلوپونز)”
- Persian: “پیلوس”
- Polish: “Pylos”
- Portuguese: “Pilos”
- Portuguese: “Pylos”
- Portuguese: “Zonklon”
- Romanian: “Navarino”
- Romanian: “Pilos”
- Romanian: “Pylos”
- Russian: “Наварин, Неокастро”
- Russian: “Пилос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pilos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pylos”
- Slovak: “Pylos”
- Slovenian: “Pilos”
- Spanish: “Navarín”
- Spanish: “Navarino (Grecia)”
- Spanish: “Pilos (Grecia)”
- Spanish: “Pilos”
- Spanish: “Pylos”
- Swedish: “Pylos”
- Swiss German: “Pylos”
- Tamil: “பைலோஸ்”
- Thai: “ปีโลส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Pylos”
- Turkish: “Navarin kalesi”
- Turkish: “Navarin”
- Ukrainian: “Наварин”
- Ukrainian: “Пілос”
- Urdu: “پیلوس”
- Uzbek: “Pilos”
- Venetian: “Navarin”
- Venetian: “Navarino”
- Western Armenian: “Փիլոս”
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