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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 13,500 residents
- Description: Greek island in north Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Thasos Island” and “Thassos”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kastro and Maries.
Kastro
Village
Photo: Rosa-Maria Rinkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kastro is a small village in the interior of the Greek island of Thassos. It is believed to be the oldest village on the island. The village name comes from the old castle that existed here to protect the inhabitants.
Maries
Village
Photo: Haubi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maries is a village on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. The village is located in a valley located just south of the massif of Mount Ipsarion and its neighbouring peaks.
Theologos
Village
Photo: Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Theologos is a village and a community in the central part of the Greek island of Thasos. According to the 2021 census, it has 1,548 residents. It was the marketplace and administrative centre of the island during the Ottoman rule, from 1455 to 1902.
Thasos
- Category: island
- Location: Kavala, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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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