Eresos
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Eresos (; ; ) and its twin beach village Skala Eresou are located in the southwest part of the Greek island of Lesbos. They are villages visited by considerable numbers of tourists. Its history begins in the early Greek Archaic period and famous Greeks of antiquity that were Eressians include Sappho, Theophrastos and Phaenias of Eresus.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ερεσός
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Βόρειου Αιγαίου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 1,337
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Eresos
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ερεσός
- Greek Dimos.type
- community
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Eresos.jpg
- Greek Dimos.periph
- North Aegean
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Lesbos
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- West Lesbos
- Greek Dimos.municunit
- Eresos-Antissa
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 1337
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Archaic period
- Classical period
- Hellenistic period
- Imperial period
- Modern period
- Demographics
- Sport
- In literature
- See also
- References
- External links
Eresos (; ; ) and its twin beach village Skala Eresou are located in the southwest part of the Greek island of Lesbos. They are villages visited by considerable numbers of tourists. Its history begins in the early Greek Archaic period and famous Greeks of antiquity that were Eressians include Sappho, Theophrastos and Phaenias of Eresus.
==Geography== thumb|View of the beach at sunset. thumb|right|View to Theofrasteion thumb|St Irene church
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eresos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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