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Kalamos, Kythira
Kalamos is a village in the south east side of Kythira, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including C .... Kalamos has 250 inhabitants, one church and three beaches nearby: Chalkos, Broulea and Fyrri Ammos. A.O. Kalamou F.C. won the Kytherian football tournament 2006 and their captain was the first scorer and also he was chosen as the M.V.P. of the tournament. Kalamos' protector saint is Saint Nikitas and Kalamites have built a church to his name. The memory of Saint Nikitas is celebrated on 16 September and a festival is held that day. In Kalamos there are \rooms to let, two cafés and a tavern with local meals. There is also a mini market. External links Populated places in Islands (regional unit) # Kalamos oGreek Travel Pages br /> { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kythira
Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an Greek islands, island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, although it is distant from the main group. Administratively, it belongs to the Islands (regional unit), Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica (region), Attica region, despite its distance from the Saronic Islands, around which the rest of Attica is centered. As a municipality, it includes the island of Antikythera to the south. The island is strategically located between the Greek mainland and Crete, and from ancient times until the mid 19th century was a crossroads of merchants, sailors, and conquerors. As such, it has had a long and varied history and has been influenced by many civilizations and cultures. This is reflected in its architecture (a blend of traditional, Aegean Sea, Aegean and Venice, Venetian el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily, and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania (and western Apulia, Italy) to the north, and the west coast of Greece, including the Peloponnese. All major islands in the sea, which are located in the east of the sea, belong to Greek islands, Greece. They are collectively named the Ionian Islands, the main ones being Corfu, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Lefkada, and Ithaca (island), Ithaca. There are ferry routes between Patras and Igoumenitsa, Greece, and Brindisi and Ancona, Italy, that cross the east and north of the Ionian Sea, and from Piraeus westward. Calypso Deep, the deepest point in the Mediterranean at , is in the Ionian Sea, at . The sea is one of the most Earthquake, seismically active areas in the world. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Nikitas
Nicetas or Niketas () is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic forms: ''Nikita, Mykyta and Mikita'' People with the name Nicetas * Nicetas of Syracuse, ( 400 – 335 BC), Greek philosopher * Nicetas of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic * Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania * Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr * Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th-century archbishop of Aquileia * Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th-century Byzantine general * Niketas the Persian, 7th-century Byzantine officer * Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th-century Byzantine general * Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos * Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
