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Chersonasus

Southern Europe

Chersonasus, also spelled Chersonasos or Chersonesus, was a town and polis on the north coast of ancient Crete. It served as the harbor of the city of Lyktos and had a temple to the goddess Britomartis. It struck its own coins in the fourth century BC.

Facts
Latitude
35.321428 degrees north 1
Longitude
25.390563 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Sea Level 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. Chersonasus (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 35.321428, longitude 25.390563
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 35.3214,25.3906
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 5.0
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 25.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 35.25, 25.25
35.25 25.25 Csa
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4. GeoNames: Limín Khersonísou - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 258315, nearest place to the city coordinates (0.26 km)
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35.32297 25.39275 P PPL GR ESYE43 45 9309 2968 1 Europe/Athens
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Wikidata: Chersonasus
Wikidata Q5092564, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Chersonasus (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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