Tamassos
Tamassos or Tamasos – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the island, south-east of Soli, on the road from Soli to Tremithus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Politiko and Pera Orinis.
Politiko
Hamlet
Politiko is a village located in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. The hamlet of Filani is part of this municipality. The centre of the ancient city-kingdom Tamassos is believed to be under the village of Politiko and the nearby Greek Orthodox monastery of "Agios Herakleidios".
Pera Orinis
Village
Pera Orinis, or Pera Oreinis or Pera, is a village in the area known as Tamassos, which is in turn part of the Nicosia District in Cyprus. Pera is situated near Tamassos dam; about one hour walking distance across the Pedhieos river bank.
Episkopeio
Hamlet
Tamassos
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Iron age city-state on Cyprus
- Categories: ancient city, City-kingdom of Cyprus, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Politikó, Nicosia, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.02961° or 35° 1′ 47″ northLongitude
33.24435° or 33° 14′ 40″ eastElevation
393 metres (1,289 feet)Open location code
8G7M26HV+RPOpenStreetMap ID
way 185873017OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tamassos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tamassos”
- Albanian: “Tamassos”
- Aragonese: “Tamassos”
- Asturian: “Tamassos”
- Basque: “Tamasos”
- Basque: “Tamassos”
- Bavarian: “Tamassos”
- Bosnian: “Tamassos”
- Catalan: “Tamassos”
- Cebuano: “Tamassós”
- Chinese: “塔馬蘇斯”
- Corsican: “Tamassos”
- Croatian: “Tamassos”
- Czech: “Tamassos”
- Danish: “Tamassos”
- Dutch: “Tamassos”
- Esperanto: “Tamassos”
- Estonian: “Tamassos”
- Faroese: “Tamassos”
- Finnish: “Tamassos”
- French: “Tamassos”
- Galician: “Tamassos”
- German: “Tamassos”
- Greek: “Tamassós”
- Greek: “Ταμασσός”
- Haitian: “Tamassos”
- Hebrew: “טמסוס”
- Hungarian: “Tamassos”
- Icelandic: “Tamassos”
- Irish: “Tamassos”
- Italian: “Tamasso”
- Japanese: “タマソス”
- Kölsch: “Tamassos”
- Latin: “Tamassos”
- Latvian: “Tamassos”
- Ligurian: “Tamassos”
- Limburgan: “Tamassos”
- Lithuanian: “Tamassos”
- Lombard: “Tamassos”
- Low German: “Tamassos”
- Lower Sorbian: “Tamassos”
- Luxembourgish: “Tamassos”
- Maltese: “Tamassos”
- Mirandese: “Tamassos”
- Narom: “Tamassos”
- Northern Frisian: “Tamassos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamassos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tamassos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tamassos”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tamassos”
- Pali: “Tamassos”
- Pennsylvania German: “Tamassos”
- Pfaelzisch: “Tamassos”
- Picard: “Tamassos”
- Piemontese: “Tamassos”
- Polish: “Tamassos”
- Portuguese: “Tamassos”
- Romanian: “Tamassos”
- Romansh: “Tamassos”
- Russian: “Тамассос”
- Sardinian: “Tamassos”
- Saterfriesisch: “Tamassos”
- Scots: “Tamassos”
- Sicilian: “Tamassos”
- Silesian: “Tamassos”
- Slovak: “Tamassos”
- Slovenian: “Tamassos”
- Spanish: “Tamasos”
- Swedish: “Tamassos”
- Swedish: “Tamassós”
- Turkish: “Tamassos”
- Ukrainian: “Тамасос”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tamassos”
- Urdu: “تاماسوس”
- Venetian: “Tamassos”
- Vlaams: “Tamassos”
- Walloon: “Tamassos”
- Welsh: “Tamassos”
- Western Frisian: “Tamassos”
- Zeeuws: “Tamassos”
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