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Menoikio
Sign in to saveMenoikio (, also known to the local populations as "Bozdakas" and "Bozdas", Greek corruptions of the Turkish name "Boz Dag", which was applied to the mountain by the Turks in Ottoman time, , Sminitsa) is a mountain range in the eastern Serres and western Drama regional units of eastern Macedonia, Greece. The highest peak of the mountain is Mavromata at 1,963 m.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Menoikio
- Mountain.other_name
- Μενοίκιο
- Mountain.photo
- Beli preseki IMG 5086.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Menoikio viewed from Orvilos (Slavyanka)
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1,963
- Mountain.location
- Eastern Serres and western Drama regional unit, Greece
- Mountain.map
- Greece
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Menoikio (, also known to the local populations as "Bozdakas" and "Bozdas", Greek corruptions of the Turkish name "Boz Dag", which was applied to the mountain by the Turks in Ottoman time, , Sminitsa) is a mountain range in the eastern Serres and western Drama regional units of eastern Macedonia, Greece. The highest peak of the mountain is Mavromata at 1,963 m.
==Geography== thumb|A close view of Mount Menoikio, from its foothills 8 km to the north-east of Emmanouil Pappas (village)|Emmanouil Pappas. To the west, it is connected with the Vrontous mountain range and to the north via the Mavro Vouno mountain to Orvilos. Menoikio is mostly composed of marble and is almost entirely deforested.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menoikio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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