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  Agios Vasileios (Achaia)
'Agios Vasileios, also Agios Vassileios, Agios Vassilios, Agios Vassilios, Aghios Vasileios, Aghios Vassileios, Aghios Vasilios or Agios Vassilios (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος), older forms, Ayios Vasileios, Ayios Vassileios, Agios Vassilios and Ayios Vasilios is a village located in the municipality of Rio in the northern part of the prefecture of Achaia in the Peloponnese.
The area aroung Agios Vasileios has mainly groves with a few pasture lands and other types of crop surrounding the area while in the southwest, the central part and along the Gulf of Corinth are urbanized but most of the housing developments occurred in the 1980s and became a suburb of Patras.
The view of the northern part of the Panachaiko with forests and deforested parts and the northwestern slope which includes the urban sprawl and the transmitter tower to the north, the southeastern part of Acarnania including Nafpaktia with Nafpaktos and southwestern Phokida is to the west and the Rio-Antirio bridge.
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  Trikala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located NW of Athens, NW of Karditsa, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki and W of Larissa.
Ruins of an old sanctuary to the physician-god, an Asklepieion, or healing place, are located between the central square and the church of Saint Nicholas (Agios Nikolaos) in Trikala.
Dominated by its Byzantine fortress on Hellenistic foundations occupying the ancient Acropolis, the picturesque city is divided into two by the river Lithaios.
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 Festival & holidays in Greece
Agios Konstantinos kai Agia Elani, this festival is in honour of the first orthodox Byzantine rulers in Greece, Constantine and his mother Helen.
Feast of Agios Ioannis (St. John the Baptist), celebrating the birth date of the saint, bonfires are lit and the May Day garlands are thrown onto the bonfires.
Agios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas) celebrated in coastal churches in honour of the patron saint of seafarers, travellers and children.
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 Map of Corfu
Continuing, the road bridges the outlet of the Antinioti Lagoon and heads for Yialiskari Beach and for the Monastery of Agia Ekaterini (Saint Katherine).
The Church of Agios Konstantinos (Saint Constantine) was built on ruins of a temple dedicated to Apollo.
Here, in the square of Agios Vasileios (Saint Basil) on the last Sunday before Lent, the village priest leads off the dance called "Doxa na..." All the men of the villlage follow, each according to his age and his rank in the village.
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 The prefecture of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
The prefecture of Rethymnon is Crete's most mountainous region, bordered in the west by the White Mountains and in the east by Mt. Psiloritis.
It is divided into four provinces: Rethymno, Agios Vasileios, Amari and Mylopotamos.
The province of Agios Vasileos begins at Armeni in the north and ends on the south coast of the island where the best known resorts are Plakias, Preveli and Agia Galini.
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 Agios Vasileios (Corinthia)
Agios Vasileios or Ayios Vasilios (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος) is a village in the municipality of Tenea in the prefecture of Corinthia, Greece.
It is located about 25km to the south of the city of Corinth, approximately halfway on the old national road to Argos.
As with other Greek towns and villages, the name of the village has been rendered into numerious English versions, including: Agios Vasileios, Agios Vassileios, Agios Vassilios, Agios Vassilios, Aghios Vasileios, Aghios Vassileios, Aghios Vasilios Agios Vassilios, Ayios Vasileios, Ayios Vassileios, Agios Vassilios and Ayios Vasilios.
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia
Ruins of an old sanctuary to the physician-god, an Asklepieion, or healing place, are located between the central square and the church of Saint Nicholas (Agios Nickolaos) in Trikala.
This was a kind of medical center, from which the worship of Aesculapius gradually spread.
Dominated by its Byzantine fortress on Hellenistic foundations occupying the ancient Acropolis, the picturesque city is divided into two by an old aqueduct.
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