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Mende (Chalcidice)

Southern Europe

Mende, also recorded as Mendae, Mendai, Menda, or Mendis, was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of the Pallene peninsula in Chalkidiki, in present day Greece. It faced the coast of Pieria across the narrow Thermaic Gulf and stood near the modern town of Kalandra.

Facts
Founding Year
800 BCE to 701 BCE 1
Latitude
39.963784 degrees north 2
Longitude
23.422644 degrees east 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. Wikipedia (Greek): Μένδη
Wikipedia (Greek)Article text: founding statement
Quote, Article text: founding statement
Ιδρύθηκε πιθανόν τον 8ο αιώνα π.Χ. από αποίκους από την Ερέτρια στα πλαίσια του δεύτερου ελληνικού αποικισμού [ 3 ] .
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2. Mende (Chalcidice) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 39.963784, longitude 23.422644
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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 39.75, 23.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.75, 23.25
39.75 23.25 Csa
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4. GeoNames: Kalándra - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 261557, nearest place to the city coordinates (2.04 km)
Quote, cities500 record 261557, nearest place to the city coordinates (2.04 km)
39.97099 23.40061 P PPL GR ESYE12 15 9057 674 68 Europe/Athens
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Mende (Chalcidice) (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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