Karavas
Karavas is a town in the north of the Cyprus island. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. As of 2011, the town has a population of 6,597.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: place in Kyrenia District, Cyprus
- Also known as: “Alsancak” and “Karava”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Acheiropoietos Monastery and Mount Selvili.
Acheiropoietos Monastery
Ruins
Photo: Shirazibustan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Acheiropoietos Monastery was a medieval Byzantine Orthodox monastery in Lambousa near the village of Karavas in the Kyrenia District, Cyprus.
Mount Selvili
Peak
Kyparissovouno is the highest peak of the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus at an altitude of 1,024 metres, situated in the Kyrenia Mountains. It is located in the Kyrenia District. Mount Selvili is situated 4 km southwest of Karavas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Motides and Palaiosofos.
Motides
Village
Motides is a small village in Cyprus, to the east of Lapithos. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus. According to the Statistics Office of Northern Cyprus, in 2011 there were 180 inhabitants in the village.
Palaiosofos
Village
Palaiosofos is a small village in Cyprus, located southeast of Lapithos. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus.
Lapta
Town
Lapithos or Lapethos is a town in Cyprus under the control of Northern Cyprus. Archeologists claim that Lapithos was founded by the Achean brothers Praxandros and Cepheus.
Karavas
- Categories: human settlement, town, and locality
- Location: Karavás, Keryneia, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.33941° or 35° 20′ 22″ northLongitude
33.19608° or 33° 11′ 46″ eastElevation
62 metres (203 feet)Open location code
8G7M85QW+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 289749677OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Karavas” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարավաս”
- Asturian: “Karavas”
- Bulgarian: “Каравас”
- Cebuano: “Karavás”
- Chinese: “卡拉瓦斯”
- Dutch: “Karavas”
- Finnish: “Karavás”
- French: “Alsancak”
- French: “Karavás”
- Greek: “Karavás”
- Greek: “Καραβάς”
- Italian: “Karavas”
- Lithuanian: “Karavasas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karavas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karavas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karavás”
- Norwegian: “Karavas”
- Persian: “کاراواس”
- Polish: “Karawas”
- Portuguese: “Caravas”
- Portuguese: “Karavas”
- Russian: “Каравас”
- Spanish: “Karavas”
- Swedish: “Karavás”
- Turkish: “Alsancak, Girne”
- Turkish: “Alsancak, Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Alsancak, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Alsancak, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Alsancak”
- Ukrainian: “Каравас”
- Urdu: “کاراواس”
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