Vasilika Parnassos
Vasilika ( el, Βασιλικά, link=no) is a Greek toponym, meaning "royal place/land". It can refer to: * Vasilika, Boeotia * Vasilika, Euboea * Vasilika, Heraklion * Vasilika, Lesbos * Vasilika, Phthiotis * Vasilika, Thessaloniki ** Vasilika refugee camp The Vasilika refugee camp is a military-run refugee camp located in an old warehouse in Vasilika village (Thermi), Central Macedonia, Greece. The camp opened on 14 June 2016 to host the refugees evicted from the Idomeni Idomeni or Eidomene ( el, ... See also * Vasiliki (other) * Vasiliko (other) {{geodis ...
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Vasilika, Boeotia
Vasilika ( el, Βασιλικά) is a small village in the prefecture of Boeotia, Greece. It is about 150 kilometers (ca. 90 miles) NW of Athens, and about 25 kilometers (ca. 15 miles) from the prefecture's capital, Livadeia. The village was originally called Kravasaras (Κραβασαράς). References to that name go back to the middle of the 17th century. Vasilika is built at the foot of the hill of Philoboiotos (Φιλοβοιωτός), where the Roman general Sulla assembled his troops prior to the Battle of Chaeronea, in 86 BC. There, Sulla was victorious against the forces of Taxiles, who was fighting for the King of Pontus Mithridates. To the west, about 400 meters away, scant ruins possibly indicate the temple of Asklepios Archagetes, mentioned by Pausanias. The place is still called "The Columns". To the east of the village there used to be, until recently, the Inn of Katoikou where, according to Ioannis Makrygiannis, in 1823 during the Greek War of Independence ...
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Vasilika, Thessaloniki
Vasilika ( el, Βασιλικά) is a community and a municipal unit of the Thermi municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform the municipal unit of Vasilika was an independent municipality, with the respective community being the seat. The 2011 census recorded 4,200 inhabitants in the community and 9,911 inhabitants in the municipal unit. The community of Vasilika covers an area of 56.81 km2 while the respective municipal unit covers an area of 200.336 km2. According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 2.000 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900. Kanchov, Vasil, , Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 1. Written as "Василика". (in Bulgarian) Administrative division The community of Vasilika consists of two separate settlements: * Lakkia (population 438) *Vasilika (population 3,762) The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011. See also * List of settlements in the Thessaloniki regional unit This is a list ...
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Vasilika Refugee Camp
The Vasilika refugee camp is a military-run refugee camp located in an old warehouse in Vasilika village (Thermi), Central Macedonia, Greece. The camp opened on 14 June 2016 to host the refugees evicted from the Idomeni Idomeni or Eidomene ( el, Ειδομένη, ) is a small village in Greece, near the border with North Macedonia. The village is located in the municipality of Paeonia, Kilkis regional unit of Central Macedonia (Greece). The village is built a ... refugee camp and Hotel Hara. Greek authorities declared that 1,158 people, fundamentally Syrian and Iraqi, were moved from the Eko camp (belonging to Idomeni refugee camp) to Vasilika in buses. As of 23 June 2016, there were 1,205 refugees registered in the Vasilika refugee camp. Some refugees have denounced to the media the poor conditions of the camp regarding food and facilities. References {{coord missing, Greece Refugee camps in Greece Afghan refugees Syrian refugee camps Iraqi refugees 2016 establi ...
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Vasiliki (other)
Name Vasiliki is a Greek name meaning "royal" that may refer to: *Vassiliki (given name) Places * Vasiliki, Lasithi, a village and an archaeological site in Lasithi, Crete, Greece * Vasiliki, Lefkada, a village on Lefkada, Greece * Vasiliki, Trikala, a municipal unit in Trikala regional unit, Greece Other uses *Vasiliki Ware, a type of Minoan pottery * ''Vasiliki'' (film), a 1997 Greek film directed by Vangelis Serdaris *''Vasiliki'', a song by Stamatis Spanoudakis and Yiannis Xanthoulis, originally sung by Alkistis Protopsalti * Vasiliki Ridge, a landform in the United States See also *Vasilisa (name) The Russian female name Vasilisa (russian: Василиса) is of Greek origin ( gr, βασίλισσα, '' basilissa''), which means "queen" or "empress". It is the feminine form of Vasily, the Russian form of the name Basil. Its use was inspir ...