Taygetus
The Taygetus, Taugetus, Taygetos or Taÿgetus is a mountain range on the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. The highest mountain of the range is Mount Taygetus, also known as "Profitis Ilias", or "Prophet Elias".Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Localities in the Area
Anavryti
Photo: macrolepis, CC BY 3.0.
Anavryti or Anavriti is a small village in Laconia, Greece on Taygetus mountain, altitude 850m.
Kalyvia Sochas
Κalyvia Sochas is a village in Laconia, in southern Greece.Arna
Arna is a village on the eastern slopes of the Taygetus mountain range, at an altitude of 700 to 850 m.Taygetus
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,404 metres
- Description: mountain range in Peloponnese, Greece
- Category: landform
- Location: Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.95311° or 36° 57' 11" northLongitude
22.35066° or 22° 21' 2" eastElevation
2,404 metres (7,887 feet)Open Location Code
8G84X932+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 10313443798OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
253062Wikidata ID
Q515809Taygetus Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ταΰγετον
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ταΰγετος
- Arabic: جبل تايجتوس
- Armenian: Տայգետոս
- Belarusian: Тайгет
- Bulgarian: Тайгет
- Catalan: Taíget
- Cebuano: Taḯyetos Óros
- Chinese: 泰格特斯山脈
- Czech: Taygetos
- Danish: Taygetus
- Dutch: Taigetos
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل تايجتوس
- English: Oros Taigetos
- Esperanto: Tajgeto
- Estonian: Taygetos
- Finnish: Taÿ́getos
- French: Taygète
- Georgian: ტაიგეტი
- German: Taygetos
- Greek: Taÿ́getos
- Greek: Taÿ́getos Óros
- Greek: Όρος Ταΰγετος
- Greek: Ταΰγετος
- Greek: Ταΰγετος Όρος
- Hebrew: טייגטוס
- Hungarian: Tajgetosz
- Italian: Taigeto
- Japanese: タイゲスト山脈
- Japanese: タイゲトス山
- Japanese: タイゲトス山脈
- Korean: 타이게토스산
- Latin: Taygetus
- Latvian: Taigets
- Macedonian: Тајгет
- Norwegian: Taygetos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Taygetos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Taýjetos
- Persian: تایژتوس
- Polish: Tajget
- Portuguese: Taigeto
- Portuguese: Taígeto
- Russian: Тайгет
- Serbo-Croatian: Tajget
- Spanish: Monte Taigeto
- Swedish: Taygetos
- Swedish: Taḯyetos Óros
- Ukrainian: Тайгет
- Venetian: Taigeto
- Pentedaktylon
- Taygetos Oros
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Σπηλιά ΛιαντίνηCave
- Αθάνατη ΡάχηPeak
- SotiritsaSpring
- (Taygetos)Peak
- MousgiaSpring
- (Taygetos)Peak
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Taygetus. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.