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Gaios
Sign in to saveGaios (, ) is the main port on Paxos, the smallest of the seven principal Ionian Islands, in Greece. Gaios is situated on the east coast of the island. It is named after a homonymous pupil of Paul the Apostle, who brought Christianity to the island.
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- Locality
- Γάιος
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ιονίων Νήσων
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 487
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greece place.name
- Gaios
- Greece place.name_local
- Γάιος
- Greece place.type
- community
- Greece place.image_skyline
- Paxos gaios town bgiu.jpg
- Greece place.caption_skyline
- Rows of houses in Gaios, as seen from the strait
- Greece place.periph
- Ionian Islands
- Greece place.periphunit
- Corfu
- Greece place.municipality
- Paxos
- Greece place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greece place.population
- 1396
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Gaios (, ) is the main port on Paxos, the smallest of the seven principal Ionian Islands, in Greece. Gaios is situated on the east coast of the island. It is named after a homonymous pupil of Paul the Apostle, who brought Christianity to the island.
File:GaiosPaxiJuly192022 01.jpg|Gaios Port File:Narrow streets of Gaios.jpg|Street of Gaios File:Gaios panoramic.jpg|Panoramic view of the strait surrounding St Nicolas islet (center): the islet and monastery of Panagia to the north (left), port and main settlement of Gaios to the center and south (right).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaios” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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