Trinasus
Trinasus or Trinasos, or Trinassus or Trinassos, was a town and fortress of ancient Laconia, situated upon a promontory near the head of the Laconian Gulf, and 30 stadia above Gythium.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Ruins
- Description: ancient town and fortress of Laconia, Greece
- Also known as: “Trinasos”, “Trinassos”, and “Trinassus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dimitrios and Valtaki Fortress.
Dimitrios
Photo: Tsdinos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dimitrios is a Greek shipwreck famous due to its picturesque location on an easily accessible sandy beach near Gythio, Greece. Dimitrios, a small, 67-metre cargo ship of 965 gross register tons cargo capacity built in Denmark in 1950, was registered in the Prefecture of Piraeus, registration no. Dimitrios is situated 2½ km southwest of Trinasus.
Valtaki Fortress
Castle
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Valtaki Fortress is a castle, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Trinasus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gytheion and Skala.
Gytheion
Town
Photo: Gary Bembridge, CC BY 2.0.
Gytheio or Gythio, also the ancient Gythium or Gytheion, is a town on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula, and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Gytheion is situated 6 km southwest of Trinasus.
Skala
Town
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skala is a town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Evrotas, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Skala is situated 7 km northeast of Trinasus.
Mavrovouni
Village
Mavrovouni is a village in the Mani Peninsula, Greece, south of Gytheio town. Mavrovouni is situated 8 km southwest of Trinasus.
Trinasus
- Categories: ancient city and historic site
- Location: Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.79814° or 36° 47′ 53″ northLongitude
22.61298° or 22° 36′ 47″ eastOpen location code
8G84QJX7+75OpenStreetMap ID
way 742294411OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q60792067
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In Other Languages
From Greek to Turkish—“Trinasus” goes by many names.
- Greek: “Τρινασός”
- Greek: “Τρινασσός”
- Turkish: “Trinasus”
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Highlights include Ekklisia Panagia and Γερμανικό Πολυβολείο.
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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 “Trinasus”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.