Zakros
Zakros is a city in Crete. It is one of six Minoan Palatial Centres to be listed as a world heritage site.
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- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of around 250 metres (810 feet)
- Opening hours: 8:00 AM–6:45 PM
- Description: Minoan archaeological site in Eastern Crete, Greece
- Also known as“Apano Zakro”“Epáno Zákros”“Minoan Palace of Kato Zakro”“Minoan Palace of Zakros”“Zakro”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zakros and Klisidi.
Zakros
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Latitude
35.0979° or 35° 5′ 53″ north
Longitude
26.2609° or 26° 15′ 39″ east
Open location code
8G7837X6+58
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Zakros” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زاكروس”
- Armenian: “Զակրոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Zakros”
- Bulgarian: “Като Закрос”
- Catalan: “Kato Zakro”
- Catalan: “Zakros”
- Chinese: “扎克羅斯”
- Chinese: “萨克罗”
- Chinese: “薩克羅”
- Czech: “Kató Zakros”
- Dutch: “Zakros”
- Esperanto: “Zakro”
- Finnish: “Káto Zákros”
- Finnish: “Zákros”
- French: “Kato Zakros”
- French: “Zakros”
- German: “Káto Zákros”
- German: “Minoischer Palast von Kato Zakros”
- German: “Palast von Zakros”
- Greek: “ανάκτορο της Ζάκρου”
- Greek: “Ζάκρος”
- Greek: “Κάτω Ζάκρος”
- Hebrew: “זקרוס”
- Hungarian: “Zakró”
- Hungarian: “Zakros”
- Italian: “Kato Zakros”
- Italian: “Zakros”
- Japanese: “ザクロス”
- Latin: “Zacrus (urbs Minoa)”
- Latin: “Zacrus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kato Zakros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zakros”
- Norwegian: “Zakros”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zakros”
- Persian: “زاکرس”
- Polish: “Kato Zakro”
- Polish: “Káto Zákros”
- Polish: “Pałac minojski w Zakros”
- Polish: “Zakros”
- Portuguese: “Cato Zacro”
- Portuguese: “Kato Zakros”
- Portuguese: “Zacro”
- Portuguese: “Zakros”
- Russian: “Закрос”
- Russian: “Като Закрос”
- Slovak: “Kato Zakros”
- Slovenian: “Zakros”
- Spanish: “Kato Zakro”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Zakros”
- Spanish: “Palacio minoico de Zakros”
- Spanish: “Zacros”
- Spanish: “Zakro”
- Spanish: “Zákros”
- Spanish: “Ζάκρος”
- Tatar: “Закрос археологик аланы”
- Turkish: “Zakros”
- Ukrainian: “Закрос”
- Ukrainian: “Като-Закро”
- Ukrainian: “Като-Закрос”
- Urdu: “زاکروس”
- Uzbek: “Zakros”
- Western Armenian: “Զաքրոս”
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