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  • Cyprus, Agios Ioannis
  • geo:35.116669,33.950001

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Famagusta - Arsinoe on Cyprus [ Mağusa - Gazimağusa]

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According to Strabo - Book XIV, Chapter 6 : ...Teucer, the founder of Salamis in Cypros, first landed, having been banished, as they say, by his father Telamon. Then to a city Carpasia, with a harbour.... Then to Arsinoê, a city and harbour....1

Sources:

  1. George R. H. Wright, Ancient Building in Cyprus, Leiden, Brill 1992

References

  1. ↑The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928 - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/14F*.html

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-07-29) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Famagusta - Arsinoe on Cyprus [ Mağusa - Gazimağusa]. https://vici.org/vici/21608, accessed 2026-11-11.