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Agios Nikolaos is Greek (Aγιος Nικολαος) and means Saint Nicholas, also known as ) in Lycia, Asia Minor, (lived c. 270 - 345/352) was a 4th century bishop and is a Christian saint. His feast day is December 6, presumably the date of his death. In the Netherlands 5 December is known as his feast: this is is a...
Saint Nicholas. The stress lies on the second syllable of the word "Nikolaos". Agios Nikolaos (or Ayios Nikolaos, an alternative Transliteration the word transliteration is used to include both transliteration in the narrow sense and transcription. Anglicizing is a transcription method. Romanization encompasses several transliteration and transcription methods. Example to illustrate the difference between transliteration and transcription In Modern Greek, the letters <η> <ι> <υ...
transliteration) is a common place name in Greece, formally called the Hellenic Republic ( Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav...
Greece and Cyprus (in Greek Kypros Κύπρος and in Turkish Kıbrıs) is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 113 kilometres (70 miles) south of Turkey and around 120 km west of the Syrian coast. National motto: None National anthem: Ύμν...
Cyprus since Saint Nicholas is the patron General definition of saint In general, the term Saint refers to someone who is exceptionally virtuous and holy. It can be applied to both the living and the dead and is an acceptable term in most of the worlds popular religions. The Saint is held up by the community...
saint of sailors and of all of Greece. - Agios Nikolaos is a port town on the Greek island of Crete. It is located in the east of the island, east of its capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia, on the Mediterranean Sea. In the year 2000 the town had...
Agios Nikolaos (Greece) a port town in Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek ) in Sitia. Among its principal cities are Heraklion (Iraklion), Chania, Rethimno, Ierapetra, Agios Nikolaos, Sitia. Climate Crete straddles two climatic zones, the Mediterranean and the North African, mainly falling within the former. As such, the climate in Crete is primarily temperate. The atmosphere can be...
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- Ayios Nikolaos, in the Dhekelia British sovereign base in Cyprus, is a listening station of the spying network ECHELON. The Joint Service Signal Unit (JSSU), formerly 9th Signal Regiment, is based at Ayios Nikolaos providing both the UK Armed Forces and the United Nations Forces with electronic warfare support and...
Ayios Nikolaos (Cyprus) a British military base in Cyprus (in Greek Kypros Κύπρος and in Turkish Kıbrıs) is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 113 kilometres (70 miles) south of Turkey and around 120 km west of the Syrian coast. National motto: None National anthem: Ύμν...
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