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Agia Fotini (Agia Fotou), in the town of Agios Andronikos, Cyprus.
Church of Agia Foteini in the occupied village of Agios Andronikos.
The cave-hermitage of Agia Fotini is simply one of the many hermitages that have been found in the area of Rizokarpasos and which date back to the entire Byzantine period.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Agía Solomoní is a church in Famagusta district. Agía Solomoní is situated nearby to the villages Melanagra and Agios Andronikos.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
The cross-shaped Byzantine Church of Panayia Kyra in Livadia village, Karpas penisula, featuring an irregular dome appears in this watercolour.
Panagia Kyra is a Byzantine church located in the area of Livadia, near the village of Komis Kepir , on the Karpasia peninsula in Cyprus.
The Séder Plate : maror, karpas, beitzah, zroah, charoseth
The photo is part of my photographic exhibition featuring 21 laminated panels. The images of the exhibit represent the symbols of Jewish festivals throughout the year.
The exhibition has been shown in various places.
See on flickr : "Light and Tradition"
Panagia Trapeza. Conservation project of the church of Agia Trapeza in Acheritou village. Panagia Trapeza is a medieval church.
It is believed that the church of Panagia Trapeza was the main church of the medieval town, which gradually deserted, leaving the church as a single signal memory of history.
The Stavropegic Monastery of Apostolos Varnavas is found on the west of Ammochostos and it is grounded from 474 - 491 A.D. by the emperor Zinonas.
These churches are the basilica of Panagia Aphendrika, the basilica of Asomatos and the church of Agios Georgios.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Neta, Cyprus is a place located in Famagusta region.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
About ten kilometers to the east of Rizokarpaso on a low plateau, in the location of Agridia, the church of Agios Filonas is built. The church is the only remnant of the village of Agridia.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
About ten kilometers to the east of Rizokarpaso on a low plateau, in the location of Agridia, the church of Agios Filonas is built. The church is the only remnant of the village of Agridia.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Apostolos Andreas Monastery is a monastery situated just south of Cape Apostolos Andreas, the north-easternmost point of the island of Cyprus, in Rizokarpaso in the Karpass Peninsula. The monastery is dedicated to Saint Andrew and is an important site for the Cypriot Orthodox Church.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Agia Marina in Karpasia.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
The Kyrenia Mountains (Greek: Κερύνειο Όρος; Turkish: Girne Dağları) is a long, narrow mountain range that runs for approximately 160 km (100 mi) along the northern coast of the island of Cyprus. It is primarily made of hard crystalline limestone, with some marble. Its highest peak is Mount Selvili, at 1,024 m (3,360 ft). Pentadaktylos (also spelt Pentadactylos; Greek: Πενταδάκτυλος; Turkish: Beşparmak) is another name for the Kyrenia Mountains, though Britannica refers to Pentadaktylos as the "western portion" of the latter, or the part west of Melounta. Pentadaktylos (lit. "five-fingered") is so-named after one of its most distinguishing features, a peak that resembles five fingers.
The Kyrenian mountains are named after the Kyrenian mountains in Achaia, Greece, which are well known from mythology because of the connection with one of the 12 labours of Hercules, the capture of the Kerynitis deer that lived there. This sacred deer of Artemis with golden horns and bronze legs ran so fast that no one could reach it. Hercules, however, after pursuing it for a whole year, managed to catch it and transport it alive to Mycenae.
A devastating fire in July 1995 burned large portions of the Kyrenia Mountains, resulting in the loss of significant forest land and natural habitat.
The only other mountain range in Cyprus is the Troodos Mountains.
These mountains are a series of sedimentary formations from the Permian to the Middle Miocene pushed up by a collision of the African and Eurasian plates. Though only half the height of the Troodos Mountains, the Kyrenia Mountains are rugged and rise abruptly from the Mesaoria plain.
The location of the mountains near the sea made them desirable locations for watch towers and castles overlooking the northern Cyprus coast, as well as the central plain. These castles generally date from the 10th through the 15th centuries, primarily constructed by the Byzantines and Lusignans. The castles of St. Hilarion, Buffavento, and Kantara sit astride peaks and were of strategic importance during much of the history of Cyprus during the Middle Ages.
A flag of Northern Cyprus is painted on the southern slope of the Kyrenia Mountains. It is reportedly 425 metres wide and 250 metres high, and is illuminated at night.
The flag is considered controversial as evidenced in the Parliamentary Question put to the European Parliament by Antigoni Papadopoulou on 22 October 2009, "How can it permit the existence of such a flag which, apart from the catastrophic environmental damage it causes, the use of chemical substances and the brutal abuse of the environment, involves an absurd waste of electricity at a time of economic crisis? Does Turkey show sufficient respect towards the environment to justify its desire to open the relevant chapter of accession negotiations?"
Greek Cypriots on the other hand keep overwhelmingly voting down unification in every referendum held on the island of Cyprus, In the North the Turkish Cypriots always vote overwhelmingly to re-unite the island in the same referendums. If the Island every unifies all the tourism will go to the North as it was before 1974, this frightens the Greeks who now live and depend on tourism in the South.
There are many legends about the Pentadactylos mountains. One tells the story of a conceited villager who fell in love with the local queen and asked for her hand in marriage. The queen wished to be rid of the impertinent young man and requested that he bring her some water from the spring of Apostolos Andreas monastery in the Karpas, a perilous journey in those days. The man set off and after several weeks returned with a skin full of that precious water. The queen was most dismayed to see that he had succeeded, but still refused to marry him. In a fit of rage, he poured the water on to the earth, seized a handful of the resulting mud and threw it at the queens head. She ducked and the lump of mud sailed far across the plain to land on top of the Kyrenia mountain range, where it is to this day, still showing the impression of the thwarted villager’s five fingers.
Another famous one is of the Byzantine hero Digenis Akritas. Tradition has it that Digenis Akritas's hand gripped the mountain to get out of the sea when he came to free Cyprus from its Saracen invaders, and this is his handprint. He also threw a large rock across Cyprus to get at the Saracen ships. That rock landed in Paphos at the site of the birthplace of Aphrodite, thus known to this day as Petra Tou Romiou or "Rock of the Greek".
Agios Sergios.
Neta is a small village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the Karpas Peninsula.
Ágios Geórgios Sakkás is a church in Famagusta district.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.
Ayios Filon is a church in Famagusta district.
The ancient city of Karpasia, which gave its name to the whole peninsula, is laying c. 3.5 km north east of the village of Rizokarpaso.
Dating to the 10thcentury, this historical church was dedicated to the saint who converted the people of the Karpasia to Christianity in the 4thcentury.
Karpasia. The thin finger of the Karpas Peninsula is all rolling meadows, craggy cliffs and wild beaches with a handful of snoozy villages thrown in.
Karpasia covers a substantial part of the island and extends to 80 kilometres in length and up to 20 in width.