Eressos (Greek: Ερεσός) and its twin beach village Scala Eressou are located in the southwest part of the Greek island of Lesbos. They are charming villages visited by considerable number of tourists. Eressos and the adjacent village, Antissa, constitute a municipality of the island. Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos, Greek: νομοί, νομός)): See also List of the prefectures of Greece by area List of the prefectures of Greece by population density List of the prefectures of Greece by population External... Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. ... Here are a lists of the provinces (Greek: επαρχεία, eparcheia fr. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Aegean Sea. ... Here are list of postal codes in Greece. ... This is an alphabetical list by town of dialing codes in Greece. ... The National Statistical Service of Greece (NSSG) is a General Secretariat of the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance with more than 1100 employees. ... The Greek car license plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (f. ... Lesbos may refer to: Lesbos Island, a large Greek island in the Aegean Sea Lesbos Prefecture, the Greek prefecture that contains the island Slang word for Lesbians. ...

• Eressos
• Sigri - the westernmost community in the island of Lesbos
• Skala Eressou

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The municipality of Eresos–Antissa contains five other villages: Messotopos, Vatoussa, Hydira, Sigri and Pterounda located in the west and most barren part of the island. Bare rocky hills, derived from ancient volcanic activity, dominate the area. Skala Eressou sports international tourism and is a favorite spot of Greek families, young people as well as gay women. With its long beautiful beach with dark volcanic sand and its crystal-clear unpolluted water, Skala Eressou was awarded Blue Flag status by the Foundation for Environmental Education. A Blue Flag beach is a maritime or freshwater recreational beach that has met stringent quality standards during the whole of the previous bathing season. ...

Its history goes back to ancient times, the first Eressian known was the historian Phalias, ca. 650 BC. Sappho, the great lyric poetess was born there ca. 630 BC, as was Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle and Father of Botany in the 4th century BC. It is remarkable that such a small provincial town could have produced such exceptional personalities. Ancient Greek bust of Sappho the Eresian. ... Statue of Theophrastus Theophrastus, a native of Eressos in Lesbos born c. ... Media:Example. ... Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ...

Historical population

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Eressos in Literature

Eressos makes a brief appearance in the novel "Sure of You", the sixth volume in the series "Tales Of The City" by Armistead Maupin. In the chapter entitled "The Third Whale", the town is described as a beach town with a beach of coarse gray sand. Some places in the town are described. These include the shop on the square where Mona found the key rings inscribed with the name "Sappho", the hotel called "Sappho the Eressian" where Mona stays in a spare, clean room with a single bed and a lone lamp, the big gray bluff at the end of the beach where more nude bathers were gathered, and the famous tents put up by the women who were part of Sappho's tribe. Annie Leibovitz portrait of Armistead Maupin, 1999 Armistead Maupin (born May 13, 1944 in Washington D.C.) is an American novelist whose most noted work to date is his six-book series collectively titled Tales of the City, the first portions of which were initially published as a newspaper serial... Ancient Greek bust of Sappho the Eresian. ...

External links

• Mapquest - Eressos, street map not yet available
• Coordinates: 39°10′7″N, 25°55′53″E

See also

• Communities of the Lesbos prefecture

Here are communities and settlements of the Lesbos prefecture in Greece: In Lesbos island A-B Afalones Agia Marina Agia Paraskevi Agiassos Agios Isidoros Agnantero Agra, Greece Akrasi Alifanta Anemotia Antissi Argennos Arisvi Assomatos C-D Chidira Dafia E-F Eressos Flakados G-I Ipio K-L Kalloni Kapi Kerami...