Peristerona
Peristerona is a large village about 32 kilometres west of the capital Nicosia, on the foothills of the Troodos Mountain range in the Morphou basin. It is built on the west bank of the river that bears the same name, which is a tributary of the river Serrachis, at an average altitude of 250 meters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: TroodosMountains, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,190 residents
- Description: community in Nicosia District, Republic of Cyprus
- Also known as: “Peristerona Lefkosias”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Astromeritis and Avlona.
Astromeritis
Village
Astromeritis is a large village in the Morphou Department of the Nicosia District of Cyprus. It is located 30 km from the capital Nicosia. At the 2011 census it had a population of 2,307. Astromeritis is situated 4 km west of Peristerona.
Avlona
Village
Avlona is a village in Cyprus, about halfway between Nicosia and Morphou. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus. Avlona is situated 4½ km northeast of Peristerona.
Akaki
Village
Photo: Максим Улитин, CC BY 3.0.
Akaki is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. Recently a major find has been made of a 36 ft x 13 ft mosaic floor of a Roman villa depicting horse races in a hippodrome from a 4th c. AD villa. Akaki is situated 4½ km east of Peristerona.
Peristerona
- Categories: community of Cyprus Republic and locality
- Location: Peristeróna, Nicosia, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.12988° or 35° 7′ 48″ northLongitude
33.08° or 33° 4′ 48″ eastPopulation
2,190Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)Open location code
8G7M43HH+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 55444610OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
146187Wikidata ID
Q4810069
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Frisian—“Peristerona” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Peristeróna”
- Dutch: “Peristerona”
- Finnish: “Peristeróna”
- Greek: “Peristeróna”
- Greek: “Περιστερώνα Λευκωσίας”
- Greek: “Περιστερώνα Μόρφου”
- Greek: “Περιστερώνα”
- Hungarian: “Periszteróna”
- Italian: “Peristerona”
- Japanese: “ペリステロナ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peristeróna”
- Persian: “پریسترونا”
- Polish: “Peristerona”
- Russian: “Перистерона”
- Spanish: “Peristerona”
- Swedish: “Peristeróna”
- Turkish: “Peristerona”
- Turkish: “Perısterona”
- Urdu: “Peristerona”
- Urdu: “پیرسٹیرونا”
- Western Frisian: “Peristerona (Nikosia)”
- Western Frisian: “Peristerona”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Peristerona”. Photo: TroodosMountains, CC BY-SA 3.0.