Eretria
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/11185
- Note
- "Eretria (/əˈriːtriə/; Greek: Ερέτρια, Eretria, literally "city of the rowers"´ Ancient Greek: Ἐρέτρια) is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important Greek polis in the 6th/5th century BC, mentioned by many famous writers and actively involved in significant historical events.
Excavations of the ancient city began in the 1890s and have been conducted since 1964 by the Greek Archaeological Service (11th Ephorate of Antiquities) and the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) - Latitude
- 38.400970458984
- Longitude
- 23.802200317383
- Population
- 12,218
- Time zone
- Europe/Athens
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