Salamis
Salamis was an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta. According to tradition, the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, king of the Greek island of Salamis, who could not return home after the Trojan War because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: historical state on Cyprus and archaeological site
- Also known as: “Salamína”, “Salamis Forest”, and “Salamis, Cyprus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of Saint Barnabas.
Monastery of Saint Barnabas
Photo: George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0.
The monastery of Saint Barnabas was a church on the island of Cyprus, 2 kilometres west of Constantia. Today the site is in Northern Cyprus and functions as a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agios Sergios and Enkomi.
Agios Sergios
Village
Photo: Wakowlk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Sergios is a large village in Cyprus, near the ancient site Salamis. Agios Sergios is de facto under Turkish occupation since the Turkish invation in Cyprus in 1974. Agios Sergios is situated 2½ km northwest of Salamis.
Enkomi
Village
Photo: Lokal Profil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Enkomi is a village near Famagusta in Cyprus. It is a short distance from a prominent 2nd millennium BC archaeological site also named Enkomi. Enkomi is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Enkomi is situated 3½ km southwest of Salamis.
Limnia
Village
Limnia is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located just north of the city of Famagusta. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Limnia is situated 4½ km northwest of Salamis.
Salamis
- Categories: historical country, polis, ancient city, City-kingdom of Cyprus, tourism, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.18567° or 35° 11′ 8″ northLongitude
33.90263° or 33° 54′ 10″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
8G7M5WP3+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 1317119944OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
19047Wikidata ID
Q767089
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Frisian—“Salamis” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σαλαμίς”
- Arabic: “سالاميس”
- Armenian: “Սալամիս”
- Azerbaijani: “Salamin”
- Basque: “Salamina”
- Belarusian: “Салямін”
- Bulgarian: “Саламин”
- Catalan: “Salamina”
- Chinese: “萨拉米斯”
- Czech: “Salamis”
- Dutch: “Salamína”
- Dutch: “Salamis”
- Esperanto: “Salamis”
- Finnish: “Salamis”
- French: “Salamine de Chypre”
- Galician: “Salamina”
- Georgian: “სალამისი (კვიპროსი)”
- Georgian: “სალამისი”
- German: “Salamis”
- Greek: “Salamís”
- Greek: “Σαλαμίνα (Κύπρος)”
- Greek: “Σαλαμίνα Κύπρου”
- Greek: “Σαλαμίνα”
- Greek: “Σαλαμίς”
- Hebrew: “סלמיס”
- Hungarian: “Szalamisz”
- Indonesian: “Salamis, Siprus”
- Italian: “Salamina”
- Japanese: “サラミス (キプロス)”
- Japanese: “サラミス (キュプロス)”
- Japanese: “サラミス”
- Korean: “살라미스”
- Latin: “Constantia”
- Latin: “Salamis”
- Latvian: “Salamina (Kipra)”
- Latvian: “Salamina”
- Lithuanian: “Archeologinė vietovė”
- Macedonian: “Саламина”
- Malagasy: “Salamisy (Sipra)”
- Malagasy: “Salamisy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salamis”
- Persian: “سالامیس، قبرس”
- Persian: “سلامیس”
- Polish: “Salamina”
- Portuguese: “Salamina”
- Romanian: “Salamis”
- Russian: “Саламин”
- Serbian: “Саламина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Salamina”
- Slovenian: “Salamina”
- Slovenian: “Salamis, Ciper”
- Slovenian: “Salamis”
- Spanish: “Salamina”
- Swahili: “Salami”
- Swedish: “Salamis, Cypern”
- Swedish: “Salamis”
- Turkish: “Salamis”
- Ukrainian: “Саламін”
- Urdu: “سلامیس، قبرص”
- Venetian: “Sałamina in Sipro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salamis, Tsipre”
- Western Frisian: “Salamis (Syprus)”
- Western Frisian: “Salamis”
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