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Sparti

Sparta

Sparta is a city and municipality in Laconia, , . It lies at the site of ancient Sparta within the Evrotas Valley. The municipality was merged with six nearby municipalities in 2011, for a total population of 32,786, of whom 17,773 lived in the city.
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  • Type: City with 16,200 residents
  • Description: modern town in Laconia, Greece, near the site of ancient Sparta
  • Also known as: “Lacedaemon”, “Lakedaímon”, “Sparta, Laconia”, “Spartē”, and “Sparti”
  • Postal code: 23100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Sparta and Temple of Artemis Orthia.

Museum
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , founded in 1875, is a museum in Sparta, that houses thousands of artifacts from the ancient Acropolis of Sparta and the rest of the municipality of Laconia.

Ruins
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC0.
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, an Archaic site devoted in Classical times to Artemis, was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek city-state of Sparta, and continued to be used into the fourth century CE, when all non-Christian worship was banned during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.

Archaeological site
Photo: Choliamb, CC BY 4.0.
The archaeological site of is located approximately 5 km from the modern city of Sparta. The geographical structure of this site includes a hill complex. The archaic name of the place is mentioned as Therapne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Magoula and Kladas.

Suburb
is a district of modern Sparta city in Laconia, . It is the former seat of the municipality. It is basically the evolution of a small village that has been attached to the growing Sparta city.

Village
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is a small village which is located about 5 kilometers north of the city of Sparta and belongs to the municipality of Sparta. The village was named after Krokodeilos , a medieval Greek military leader.

Sparta

Latitude
37.0744° or 37° 4′ 28″ north
Longitude
22.4302° or 22° 25′ 49″ east
Population
16,200
Elevation
206 metres (676 feet)
IATA airport code
SPJ
United Nations Location Code
GR SPA
Open location code
8G943CFJ+Q3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 161658541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
253394
Wiki­data ID
Q2308046
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sparta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إسبرطة”
  • Armenian: “Սպարտա”
  • Asturian: “Sparti”
  • Basque: “Esparta”
  • Belarusian: “Спарта”
  • Bulgarian: “Спарта (град)”
  • Bulgarian: “Спарта”
  • Catalan: “Esparta”
  • Chinese: “斯巴达”
  • Chinese: “斯巴達”
  • Chuvash: “Спарта”
  • Croatian: “Sparta (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Sparta”
  • Czech: “Sparta”
  • Danish: “Sparta”
  • Dutch: “Sparta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسبرطه”
  • Esperanto: “Sparto”
  • Finnish: “Sparta”
  • Finnish: “Spárti”
  • French: “Sparte (Laconie)”
  • French: “Sparte”
  • Georgian: “სპარტა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “სპარტა”
  • German: “Lakedaimon”
  • German: “Sparta (Lakonien)”
  • German: “Sparta”
  • German: “Sparti”
  • Greek: “Λακεδαιμων”
  • Greek: “Σπαρτη”
  • Greek: “Σπάρτη”
  • Hungarian: “Szpárti”
  • Icelandic: “Sparta”
  • Ido: “Sparta (Lakonia)”
  • Ido: “Sparta”
  • Irish: “Sparti”
  • Italian: “Sparta”
  • Italian: “Sparti”
  • Japanese: “スパルティ”
  • Korean: “스파르타 (도시)”
  • Korean: “스파르타”
  • Latvian: “Sparta (pilsēta)”
  • Latvian: “Sparta”
  • Lithuanian: “Spartis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sparta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sparta”
  • Persian: “اسپارتا (فلوفونسی)”
  • Persian: “اسپارتا”
  • Polish: “Sparta”
  • Portuguese: “Esparta”
  • Romanian: “Sparta”
  • Romanian: “Sparti”
  • Russian: “Спарта”
  • Serbian: “Лацедемон”
  • Serbian: “Спарта (град)”
  • Serbian: “Спарта”
  • Serbian: “Спартанци”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sparta (grad)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sparta”
  • Slovak: “Sparta”
  • Slovak: “Sparti”
  • Slovenian: “Šparta”
  • Spanish: “Esparta (municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Esparta”
  • Spanish: “Lacedemonia”
  • Swedish: “Lakedaimon”
  • Tamil: “எசுபார்த்தா”
  • Turkish: “Sparta”
  • Ukrainian: “Спарта (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Спарта”
  • Ukrainian: “Спарті”
  • Urdu: “سپارتا”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sparti (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sparti”
  • Western Armenian: “Սպարթա”
  • Western Armenian: “Սփարթի”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯巴達”

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