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Also known as Kephallenia, Kefalonia Island, Kefalonia

Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( ), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th-largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region. It was a former Latin Catholic diocese Kefalonia–Zakynthos (Cefalonia–Zante) and short-lived titular see as just Kefalonia. The largest cities of Cephalonia are Argostoli and Lixouri.

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Cephalonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece and the sixth-largest island in all of Greece. It has historically been significant as a former Catholic diocese and today functions as a separate regional unit within the Ionian Islands region, with its main cities being Argostoli and Lixouri.

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Greece place.name: Cephalonia
Greece place.name_local: Περιφερειακή ενότηταΚεφαλληνίας
Greece place.type: regional unit
Greece place.image_skyline: Asos, Kefalonia.jpg
Greece place.caption_skyline: View of Asos
Greece place.image_map: 2011 Dimos Kefalonias.png
Greece place.map_caption: Cephalonia within the Ionian Islands
Greece place.periph: Ionian Islands
Greece place.seat: Argostoli
Greece place.area: 773
Greece place.elevation: 1628
Greece place.population: 36064
Greece place.population_as_of: 2021
Greece place.postal_code: 280 xx
Greece place.area_code: 267x0
Greece place.licence: ΚΕ

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Population: 36064
Area: 734.014
Elevation: 1620
Official website: www.cephalonie.com
Image: Asos, Kefalonia.jpg
Width: 30
Length: 48
Dialing code: 267x0

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Commons category: Kefalonia
postal code: 280
native label: Κεφαλονιά

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Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( ), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th-largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region. It was a former Latin Catholic diocese Kefalonia–Zakynthos (Cefalonia–Zante) and short-lived titular see as just Kefalonia. The largest cities of Cephalonia are Argostoli and Lixouri.

== History == ===Antiquity=== ====Legend==== thumb|Excavations from Melissani in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli

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