Serifos

Also known as Seriphus

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.

Key facts

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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Antiquities
Churches gallery
History
Antiquity
Middle ages
19th and 20th centuries
Historical population
Communities
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Notes
References
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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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