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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Cyprus, Rizokárpaso
  • geo:35.630356,34.37413
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6xx / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=17255

Annotations

Karpasia Latinized as Carpasia, and also known as Karpasion was an was an ancient town in Cyprus, situated in the northern shore of the Karpas Peninsula. An ancient Greek and Phoenician colony.

Sources:

  1. sv. KARPASIA (Haghios Philon) Cypru, The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1976.

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum


Nearby

Agios Philon, Rizokarpaso

Early Christian basilica - the beginning of the Vth century.


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