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Onchestos

Southern Europe

Onchestos, also spelled Onchestus, was a town in ancient Boeotia in Greece, northwest of Thebes, within the territory of Haliartus. It was renowned in antiquity for its sanctuary of Poseidon and was said to have been founded by Onchestos, a son of Poseidon; the site has been excavated intermittently since the 1960s.

Facts
Latitude
38.364863 degrees north 1
Longitude
23.146959 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. Onchestos (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
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latitude 38.364863, longitude 23.146959
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2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 38.3649,23.147
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 149.0
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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 38.25, 23.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 23.25
38.25 23.25 Csa
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4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Quote, Zone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 ... # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT
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Onchestos (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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