Kiato (Greek, Modern Modern Greek refers to the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present: Κιάτο, Ancient Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning the Archaic , Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world. It is predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. Its Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (&/Katharevousa Katharevousa , is a form of the Greek language conceived in the early 19th century by Greek intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais (1748–1833). A graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1788, Korais spent most of his life as an expatriate in Paris. Being a classical scholar, he was repelled by the Byzantine and later: Κιάτον) is a coastal town in Greece that is agricultural-based. The town A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while many British "small towns& is located in the northern part of the prefecture of Corinthia Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a prefecture of Greece, part of the periphery of Peloponnese. It is bounded by Achaia to the west and southwest, the Gulf of Corinth and Attica to the north, the Saronic Gulf to the east and Argolis and Arcadia to the south in the Peloponnese The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula (technically an island since the 1893 construction of the Corinth Canal) and region in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. During the late Middle Ages and the Ottoman era, the peninsula was known as the Morea (Greek: Μωρέας, colloq. , Greece. Kiato is located in a sandy area which features lemon The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia and the tree's oval yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind (zest) are also used, mainly in cooking and baking. Lemon juice is about 5% to 6% (approximately 0.3 Molar) citric acid, which trees A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to 6 m; some authors set a minimum of 10 cm trunk diameter, orange An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus ×sinensis and its fruit. The orange is a hybrid of ancient cultivated origin, possibly between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and tangerine (Citrus reticulata).[citation needed] It is a small flowering tree growing to about 10 m tall with evergreen leaves, which are arranged alternately, trees, and other fruit The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas, or the similar-looking structures in other-bearing trees. It has a lot of touristic Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity activity mainly in the summer. The ancient name of Kiato was Sikyon and the municipality of Sikyona Sikyona is a municipality in Corinthia, Greece. Population 19,455 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Kiato. Sikyona takes its name from the ancient city Sicyon, which was located in the same territory is named after this place. In the antiquity it had a great prosperity, especially from the middle of the 2nd century BC The 2nd century BC started the first day of 200 BC and ended the last day of 101 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, although depending on the region being studied, other terms may be more proper. Kiato is linked with GR-8 and the Elissos river flows near the centre of Kiato. It also serves a junction on a road linking to Stymfalia Stymphalia is a municipality in Corinthia, Greece. Population 2,852 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Kalianoi, 41 km southwest of the town of Kiato on the Gulf of Corinth. The municipality occupies a mountain valley with an average altitude of 600 metres. Mount Kyllene dominates it to the north east, rising to ca. 2400 metres. The and Levidi to the southwest. On the same road 2 km south is GR-8A/E55 (Athens - Patras), E94 The E 94 is part of the international E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe eastbound with its exit at the 109th km. Kiato is located almost halfway between Patras and Athens. It is located approximately 30 km (old distance, 25 km) NW of Corinth, about 111 km W of Athens Athens (pronounced /ˈæθɨnz/; Modern Greek: Αθήνα, Athina, IPA: [aˈθina], Katharevousa/Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years, about 110 km E of Patras Patras is Greece's fourth largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens. The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras, 98 km E of the Rio-Antirio bridge The Rio-Antirrio bridge , officially the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge after the statesman who first envisioned it, is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese to Antirrio on mainland Greece and about 40 km NE of Stymfalia. Groves surround Kiato while fruit and vegetable farming areas lie to the southeast and parts near Kiato. Forests lie within the shorelines to the east and west and some to the south and along the hills. The hills lie to the south.
As of 9 July 2007, Kiato is now accessible via the Proastiakos (Athens Athens (pronounced /ˈæθɨnz/; Modern Greek: Αθήνα, Athina, IPA: [aˈθina], Katharevousa/Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years Suburban Railway).
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- Emilios T. Harlaftis (1965 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar-2005 2005 was a common year that started on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2005th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 6th of the 2000s decade) astrophysicist
- Alexandros Alexandris Footballer
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- Our Kiato (www.pelopas.webs.com)
- Mapquest - Kiato, street map not yet available
- Coordinates: 38°0′38″N 22°44′56″E / 38.01056°N 22.74889°E
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- Sicyon Sikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia. The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus; the penultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to, also known as Vasiliko, south
- Pasio (town), southwest
- Diminio, west
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