Thasos
Thasos, sometimes spelled Thassos, is a Greek Island tourist destination in the North Aegean Islands group, close to Kavala. Thassos is a green island with many picturesque bays and great sandy beaches, high forested mountains and interesting archaeological sites.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 13,500 residents
- Description: Greek island in north Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Thasos Island” and “Thassos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Kastro and Saint Elijah Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kastro and Maries.
Kastro
Village
Theologos
Village
Thasos
- Category: island
- Location: Kavala, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6853° or 40° 41′ 7″ north
Longitude
24.6532° or 24° 39′ 12″ east
Population
13,500
Elevation
586 metres (1,923 feet)
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Satellite Map
Discover Thasos from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Thasos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Thasosi”
- Albanian: “Thassos”
- Arabic: “ثاسوس”
- Armenian: “Թասոս”
- Armenian: “Տասոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Tasos adası”
- Basque: “Tasos”
- Belarusian: “Тасас”
- Breton: “Enez Tasos”
- Breton: “Enez Thasos”
- Bulgarian: “Тасос”
- Catalan: “el Taix”
- Catalan: “Tasos”
- Catalan: “Tassos”
- Cebuano: “Nisí Thásos”
- Cebuano: “Thasos (munisipyo)”
- Chinese: “萨索斯岛”
- Chinese: “薩索斯島”
- Czech: “Thasos”
- Czech: “Thásos”
- Czech: “Thassos”
- Danish: “Thassos”
- Dutch: “Thasos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثاسوس”
- Esperanto: “Tasos”
- Estonian: “Thasos”
- Estonian: “Thásos”
- Estonian: “Thásose saar”
- Finnish: “Thásos”
- French: “Île de Thásos”
- French: “Thasos”
- French: “Thásos”
- Galician: “Thasos”
- Georgian: “თასოსი”
- German: “Thasos”
- German: “Thásos”
- German: “Thassos”
- German: “Thássos”
- Greek: “Θάσος”
- Greek: “Θάσου”
- Hebrew: “תאסוס”
- Hungarian: “Thászosz”
- Indonesian: “Thasos”
- Italian: “Taso”
- Italian: “Thasos”
- Italian: “Thassos”
- Japanese: “タソス島”
- Japanese: “タッソス島”
- Korean: “타소스섬”
- Kurdish: “Tasos”
- Latin: “Thasos”
- Lithuanian: “Tasas”
- Macedonian: “Тасос”
- Malayalam: “Thasos”
- Malayalam: “താസസ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thasos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thassos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taşöz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thasos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thásos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thassos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Тасос”
- Norwegian: “Thasos”
- Persian: “تاسوس”
- Polish: “Tasos”
- Polish: “Tazos”
- Polish: “Thasos”
- Polish: “Thassos”
- Portuguese: “Taso”
- Portuguese: “Tasos”
- Portuguese: “Tassos”
- Portuguese: “Thásos”
- Romanian: “Tasos”
- Romanian: “Thasos”
- Russian: “Тасос”
- Russian: “Фазос”
- Russian: “Фасос”
- Scots: “Thasos”
- Serbian: “Tasos”
- Serbian: “Тазос”
- Serbian: “Тасос”
- Serbian: “Христопољ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tasos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tazos”
- Slovak: “Thasos”
- Slovenian: “Tasos”
- Slovenian: “Thasos”
- Spanish: “Tasos”
- Spanish: “Thasos”
- Spanish: “Thásos”
- Swedish: “Thasos”
- Swedish: “Thassos”
- Tamil: “தாசோஸ்”
- Turkish: “Taşoz”
- Turkish: “Thasos”
- Ukrainian: “Тасос”
- Urdu: “تھاسوس”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Thasos”
- Vietnamese: “Thasos”
- Vietnamese: “Thassos”
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