Pyla
Pyla is a village in Larnaca District, Cyprus. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone, the other three being Athienou, Troulloi and Deneia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kingsfield Airfield and Pyla-Kokkinokremos.
Kingsfield Airfield
Aerodrome
Kingsfield Airfield is a small airfield located in Dhekelia Cantonment. No. 16 Flight AAC, which operated Westland Gazelle AH.1 helicopters, was based here.
Pyla-Kokkinokremos
Archaeological site
Pyla-Kokkinokremos was a Late Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus, which was abandoned after a brief occupation. Pyla-Kokkinokremos is situated 3½ km south of Pyla.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pergamos and Xylotymvou.
Pergamos
Village
Pergamos is a Turkish Cypriot village in Larnaca District, Cyprus, 4 km north of Pyla, almost surrounded by the British Sovereign Base Area at Dhekelia. Pergamos is situated 3½ km northeast of Pyla.
Xylotymvou
Village
Photo: Максим Улитин, CC BY 3.0.
Xylotymbou is a small town in Larnaca District in south-eastern Cyprus. It is one of the four enclaves surrounded by the Eastern Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory, administered as a Sovereign Base Area. Xylotymvou is situated 5 km east of Pyla.
Oroklini
Town
Photo: Valantis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Voroklini, more commonly known by its unofficial name Oroklini, is a village in Larnaca District, Cyprus. Situated to the northeast of Larnaca, its population in 2011 was 6,134. Oroklini is situated 5 km southwest of Pyla.
Pyla
- Type: Village with 1,430 residents
- Description: community in Larnaca District, Republic of Cyprus
- Categories: community of Cyprus Republic and locality
- Location: Pýla, Larnaca district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.01386° or 35° 0′ 50″ northLongitude
33.69184° or 33° 41′ 31″ eastPopulation
1,430Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)Open location code
8G7M2M7R+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 21510697OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
146110Wikidata ID
Q1968566
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Pyla” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պիլա”
- Bulgarian: “Пила”
- Cebuano: “Pýla”
- Dutch: “Pyla”
- Erzya: “Пила (Кипр)”
- Erzya: “Пила”
- Estonian: “Pýla”
- French: “Pýla”
- Georgian: “პილა”
- German: “Pyla”
- Greek: “Pýla”
- Greek: “Πύλα”
- Hungarian: “Píla”
- Italian: “Pyla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pýla”
- Persian: “پایلا”
- Polish: “Pila”
- Polish: “Pyla”
- Russian: “Пила (Кипр)”
- Russian: “Пила”
- Scots: “Pyla”
- Sindhi: “پاپلا”
- Slovenian: “Pyla”
- Spanish: “Pyla”
- Swedish: “Pyla”
- Turkish: “Pile”
- Ukrainian: “Пила”
- Urdu: “پایلا”
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