Yerakini
Gerakini or Yerakini is a village on the Chalkidiki peninsula in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece. It was an official settlement within the municipality of Polygyros until it was abolished in 2001.Photo: Aristolaos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Aristolaos, CC0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Greece
- Also known as: “Gerakini”, “Gerakiní”, and “Yerakiní”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mecyberna.
Mecyberna
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mecyberna or Mekyberna was a town of Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia, which stood at the head of the Toronaic Gulf, which was also called Sinus Mecybernaeus. Mecyberna is situated 4½ km west of Yerakini.
Yerakini
- Category: locality
- Location: Polygyros, Northern Chalkidiki, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.2797° or 40° 16′ 47″ northLongitude
23.4443° or 23° 26′ 40″ eastElevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR YEROpen location code
8GG57CHV+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 130199656OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
733787Wikidata ID
Q1251598
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Yerakini” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Геракини”
- Dutch: “Yerakini”
- German: “Gerakini”
- Greek: “Γερακινή Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Γερακινή”
- Greek: “Γερακίνη”
- Greek: “Ισά Όμπαση”
- Macedonian: “Геракини”
- Pontic: “Ισά Όμπαση”
- Serbian: “Gerakini”
- Serbian: “Геракини”
- Turkish: “İsa Onbaşı”
- Ukrainian: “Геракіні”
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