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Sparta

modern town in Laconia, Greece, near the site of ancient Sparta
Place town Q2308046
Sparta

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, city[4]
Official website
www.sparta.gr, www.sparti.gov.gr, www.sparti.gov.gr[11][12]
Native label
Σπάρτη[25]
Official name
Σπάρτη[24]

Location

Country
Greece[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.074°, 22.429°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Sparta Municipality, Commune of Sparti, Lakonia[1][2]

Population and size

Area
+84.5[29]
Elevation above sea level
+210[28]
Population
7.9k (7.9k–17k, n=5)[13][14][15][16][17]

Codes

Local dialing code
2731[10]
Postal code
23100, 23150[7][8]
More facts +5
Capital of
Laconia prefecture, Sparta Municipality, Lacedaemon Province, Laconia Regional Unit[20][21][22][23]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18][19]
Different from
Sparta, Esparta[26][27]
Patron saint
Saint Nikon the Metanoeite[9]
Twinned administrative body
Niš, Taranto[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sparta ar إسبرطة de Sparta (Lakonien) de Sparti el Σπάρτη es Esparta es Esparta (municipio) fa اسپارتا (فلوفونسی) fr Sparte fr Sparte (Laconie) hu Szpárti it Sparti ja スパルティ ko 스파르타 (도시) ro Sparti ru Спарта uk Спарта (місто) uk Спарті zh 斯巴达 zh-hant 斯巴達
🔖 Identifiers · 29
VIAF cluster ID
164211230
Library of Congress authority ID
n80034098
ArchINFORM location ID
16392
BHCL UUID
eb21e4da-aad8-42d6-a641-2dc9f2b392e9
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15299122t
British Museum place ID
x28836
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12016272
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--49522
ELSTAT geographical code
4301010101
FAST ID
1208088
Freebase ID
/m/02r15xm
GeoNames ID
253394
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
esparta
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0024867
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
7602
Museum-digital place ID
11179
NL CR AUT ID
ge1207989
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001142443
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007561919105171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3978030
OpenStreetMap way ID
1104511687
Pinakes city ID
562
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1202947
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID
GBX34TGAMJFE3DNY34GW4MIXYE
Topic's main category
Category:Sparti
Who's on First ID
1209946147
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
14155118
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmXPkcRHT3k9dpF7R7bVC, E39PBJrrtkBktgMKC7C6RWCYT3
Yale LUX ID
place/3763c661-846a-4daa-830b-a01915979530

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🔗 Connections
People born here 7
Alexandros Theofilakis, Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas, Chrisoula Zacharopoulou, Dimitrios Triantafyllakos, George Hermonymus, Henry R. Harris, Yiannis Aloimonos
Located in this place 4
sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, Archaeological Museum of Sparta, Menelaion, Theatre of Sparta
← Capital 4
Sparta, Laconia prefecture, Laconia Regional Unit, Sparta Municipality
Capital of 3
Laconia prefecture, Laconia Regional Unit, Sparta Municipality
Instance of 2
city, town
Twinned administrative body 2
Taranto, Niš
← Headquarters location 2
Sparta Municipality, A.E. Sparti F.C.
← Twinned administrative body 2
Taranto, Niš
Contained subdivisions 1
Sparti Airport
Country 1
Greece
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Different from 1
Sparta
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Sparta Municipality
Patron saint 1
Saint Nikon the Metanoeite
← Terminus location 1
A71 motorway
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Related Entities

city Greece Taranto Yiannis Aloimonos

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  17. [17] ↑ . Greek census 1951. wikidata.org.
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ British Museum place ID: x28836, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/328355491|Sparta (#328355491)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8589|British Museum place "
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