Kantara Castle
Kantara Castle is a castle in Cyprus, in the area controlled by Northern Cyprus. The exact date of its construction is unknown, the most plausible theory being the Byzantine period.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: fortification
- Also known as: “Kandara Castle”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaplıca and Kantara.
Kaplıca
Village
Photo: Seksen iki yüz kırk beş, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karpaz is a slender, 80-km long peninsula in the northeast of Northern Cyprus. It's mostly rugged and thinly populated: there are hotels, but on nothing like the scale of the Kyrenia or Turkish mainland tourist strips. In 2023 the population was 20,245.
Kantara
Village
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kantara is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located south-west of Kantara Castle. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Kantara is situated 3 km southwest of Kantara Castle.
Ovgoros
Village
Ovgoros is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located northeast of Trikomo. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Ovgoros is situated 4½ km south of Kantara Castle.
Kantara Castle
- Categories: crusader castle, fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Davlós, Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.40639° or 35° 24′ 23″ northLongitude
33.92328° or 33° 55′ 24″ eastElevation
585 metres (1,919 feet)Open location code
8G7MCW4F+H8OpenStreetMap ID
way 102187375OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Kantara Castle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կանտարա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kantara qalası”
- Basque: “Kantara gaztelua”
- Bosnian: “Kantara”
- Cebuano: “Kantára”
- Czech: “Hrad Kantara”
- Dutch: “Kasteel Kantara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة القنطره”
- Finnish: “Kantaran linna”
- Finnish: “Kantáran linna”
- French: “château de Kantara”
- French: “Château de Kantara”
- Georgian: “კანტარის ციხესიმაგრე”
- German: “Burg Kantara”
- German: “Kantara Burg”
- German: “Kantara”
- Greek: “Kantára”
- Greek: “Καντάρα”
- Greek: “Κάστρο της Καντάρας”
- Hungarian: “kantarai vár”
- Hungarian: “Kantarai vár”
- Italian: “castello di Kantara”
- Italian: “Castello di Kantara”
- Japanese: “カンタラ城”
- Lithuanian: “Kantara”
- Malayalam: “കാൻടറ കാസിൽ”
- Malayalam: “കാന്താര കാസിൽ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantara-festningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandára-festninga”
- Norwegian: “Kantara-festningen”
- Persian: “قلعه کانتارا”
- Polish: “Kantara (zamek)”
- Polish: “Kantara”
- Russian: “Кантара”
- Slovenian: “Grad Kantara”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Kantara”
- Spanish: “Castillo Kantara”
- Swedish: “Kantára”
- Turkish: “Kantara Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Кантара”
- Uzbek: “Kantara”
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