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Elafonisi

Elafonisi is best known as a beach associated with an island in Greece, and it appears widely in tourist descriptions as a destination in its own right. The name “Elafonisi” is used not only for this coastal place, but also for other cultural references—most notably as the title of a song by Eleni Legaki. That crossover matters because it shows how certain landscapes in Greece move from geography into language, carrying the same name through music and everyday speech. On a practical level, you’re dealing with a coastal setting whose identity is inseparable from the island it shares its name with: “Elafonisi” functions as both a physical feature and a point on the map that travellers seek out. …

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