Serifos
Sign in to saveSerifos () is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos regional unit. The area is and the population was 1,241 at the 2021 census. It is located about ESE of the Athenian port of Piraeus.
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- Greek Dimos.name
- Serifos
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Σέριφος
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Serifou.png
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Serifos airview.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Airview
- Greek Dimos.elevation_min
- 0
- Greek Dimos.elevation_max
- 585
- Greek Dimos.periph
- South Aegean
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Milos
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 1241
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 75.21
- Greek Dimos.mayor
- Konstantinos Revinthis
- Greek Dimos.since
- 2019
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 840 05
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 22810
- Greek Dimos.licence
- EM
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Serifos () is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos regional unit. The area is and the population was 1,241 at the 2021 census. It is located about ESE of the Athenian port of Piraeus.
In Greek mythology, Serifos is where Danaë and her infant son Perseus washed ashore after her father Acrisius, in response to an oracle that his own grandson would kill him, set them adrift at sea in a wooden chest. When Perseus returned to Serifos with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, he turned Polydektes, the king of Serifos, and his retainers into stone as punishment for the king's attempt to marry his mother by force.
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