Eresos
Sign in to saveEresos (; ; ) 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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +1086
- Elevation
- +44
- Image
- Eresos.jpg
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13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Archaic period
- Classical period
- Hellenistic period
- Imperial period
- Modern period
- Demographics
- Sport
- In literature
- See also
- References
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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.
==Geography== thumb|View of the beach at sunset. thumb|right|View to Theofrasteion thumb|St Irene church