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Sithonia

Sithonia, also known as Longos, is a peninsula and part of the larger peninsula of in . The lies to the west of Sithonia and the peninsula to the east.
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is a village on the Sithonia peninsula, in the peninsula, . In 2011, had a little over 3,000 permanent residents.

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is a village in the Sithonia municipality on the Sithonia peninsula, . It had a population of 1,054 in the census of 2021. The name comes from the nearby Ancient Greek settlement of Sarta but the current village was settled after 1923 by Greek refugees from the island of Afissia after the Greco-Turkish War and population exchange.

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is a village of , in the Sithonia peninsula with a permanent population of 2,500. is 110 km from , where Sithonia peninsula begins.

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is a village in Sithonia, . is not a typical village: it has no square or history. Rather it is a 'strip' of shops, tavernas and rooms to rent, and is almost an exclusively seasonal area with few year-round residents.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parthenonas.

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is a hamlet.

Sithonia

Latitude
40.0984° or 40° 5′ 54″ north
Longitude
23.8779° or 23° 52′ 40″ east
Population
11,800
Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR T9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 286520358
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Geo­Names ID
8133963
Wiki­data ID
Q922342
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Sithonia” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Sitoniya yarımadası”
  • Bulgarian: “Ситония”
  • Catalan: “Sithònia”
  • Catalan: “Sitònia”
  • Cebuano: “Chersónisos Sithonías”
  • Cebuano: “Sithonia”
  • Chinese: “錫索尼亞半島”
  • Chinese: “锡索尼亚半岛”
  • Czech: “Sithonia”
  • Danish: “Sithonia”
  • Dutch: “Sithonia”
  • Esperanto: “Sitonia”
  • Estonian: “Sithonía poolsaar”
  • Finnish: “Sithonía”
  • French: “Sithonia”
  • French: “Sithonie”
  • German: “Sithonia”
  • Greek: “Σιθωνία”
  • Greek: “Σιθωνίας”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος Σιθωνίας”
  • Hebrew: “סיתוניה”
  • Hungarian: “Szithonía-félsziget”
  • Italian: “Longos”
  • Italian: “Sithonia”
  • Italian: “Sitonia”
  • Japanese: “シトニア”
  • Japanese: “シトニア半島”
  • Lithuanian: “Sitonija”
  • Macedonian: “Ситонија”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sithonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sithonía”
  • Persian: “سیتونیا”
  • Polish: “Sithonia”
  • Portuguese: “Sithonia”
  • Portuguese: “Sitônia”
  • Romanian: “Sithonia”
  • Russian: “Ситония”
  • Russian: “Ситонья”
  • Serbian: “Ситонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sithonia”
  • Spanish: “Sitonia”
  • Swedish: “Chersónisos Sithonías”
  • Swedish: “Sithonia”
  • Turkish: “Sitonya”
  • Ukrainian: “Ситонія”
  • Ukrainian: “Сітонія”
  • Vietnamese: “Sithonia”

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