Famagusta - Arsinoe

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Cyprus, Famagusta
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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, .... Then to Arsinoê, a city and harbour.... ¹

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The Geography of Strabo XIV.6, Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928 - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/14F*.html

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↑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

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia
Lefkosia. Archeological museum
Cyprus, Nicosia
Berlin, Neues Museum
Berlin, Neues Museum
Germany, Berlin
Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet
Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities
Sweden, Stockholm
Paris, Louvre
Paris, Louvre
France, Paris

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St George of the Greeks Church, Famagusta
http://www.whatson-northcyprus.com/interest/famagusta/famagusta/george_greeks.htm
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Famagusta - Arsinoe on Cyprus [ Mağusa - Gazimağusa]
The town was also known as Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), after Arsinoe II of Egypt. It was founded in around 274 BC.
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Salamis [Cyprus], Harbour
City port - Salamis.
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