Mieza
Mieza, "shrine of the Nymphs", was a town in ancient Macedonia, where Aristotle was said to have taught the boy Alexander the Great between 343 and 340 BCE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles and Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia.
Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles
Archaeological site
The Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza, noted for the quality of its painted decoration. The tomb was originally built for the brothers Lyson and Kallikles, sons of Aristophanes, around 250 BC and it continued to be used by their descendants for around a century, going out of use around time of Roman conquest. Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles is situated 1 km northeast of Mieza.
Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia
Archaeological site
Photo: Iolchos07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tomb of Judgement, also known as the Great Tomb of Lefkadia is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza, noted for its monumental painted facade. It was probably built at the beginning of the third century BC. Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia is situated 1½ km northeast of Mieza.
Lefkadia Flowers Tomb (Emathia)
Archaeological site
Photo: Iolchos07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tomb of the Palmettes, sometimes known as the Rhomiopoulou Tomb, is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza, Macedonia, Greece, noted for the quality of its painted decoration. It was built in the first half of the third century BC. Lefkadia Flowers Tomb (Emathia) is situated 2 km northeast of Mieza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kopanos, Imathia and Agios Nikolaos.
Agios Nikolaos
Hamlet
Photo: Cgvasilei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Agios Nikolaos is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km southwest of Mieza.
Arkochori
Village
Photo: Cgvasilei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arkochori is a village, which is situated 7 km southwest of Mieza.
Mieza
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: village in Ancient Macedon
- Categories: polis, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Naousa, Imathia, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.6442° or 40° 38′ 39″ northLongitude
22.12249° or 22° 7′ 21″ eastOpen location code
8GG4J4VC+MXOpenStreetMap ID
way 515937999OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q132472
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Mieza” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Միեզա”
- Bengali: “মিয়েজা, ম্যাসিডোনিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Миеза”
- Catalan: “Mieza”
- Chinese: “米埃扎”
- Dutch: “Mieza”
- Esperanto: “Mieza”
- Finnish: “Mieza”
- French: “Miéza”
- German: “Mieza”
- Greek: “Μίεζα”
- Indonesian: “Mieza, Makedonia”
- Italian: “Mieza”
- Korean: “미에자”
- Macedonian: “Миеза”
- Malay: “Mieza”
- Persian: “میزا (مقدونیه باستان)”
- Persian: “میزا”
- Polish: “Mieza”
- Portuguese: “Mieza”
- Russian: “Миеза”
- Spanish: “Mieza”
- Turkish: “Mieza”
- Ukrainian: “Мієза”
- Western Armenian: “Միեզա”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mieza”. Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 4.0.