Kantara
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located south-west of Kantara Castle
- Also known as: “Kandara”, “Kantara, Famagusta”, and “Kantara, İskele”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kantara Castle.
Kantara Castle
Castle
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Kantara Castle is situated 3 km northeast of Kantara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ardana and Gerani.
Ardana
Village
Photo: George Groutas, CC BY 2.0.
Ardana is a village in Cyprus, located 9 km north of Trikomo. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Ardana is situated 3½ km south of Kantara.
Gerani
Village
Gerani is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located 8 km northeast of Trikomo. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Gerani is situated 3½ km southeast of 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. Kaplıca is situated 4 km north of Kantara.
Kantara
- Categories: human-geographic territorial entity and locality
- Location: Davlós, Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.38727° or 35° 23′ 14″ northLongitude
33.89848° or 33° 53′ 55″ eastElevation
547 metres (1,795 feet)Open location code
8G7M9VPX+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 6029501335OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Turkish—“Kantara” goes by many names.
- German: “Kantara”
- Greek: “Kantára”
- Greek: “Καντάρα”
- Italian: “Kantara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandára”
- Russian: “Кантара”
- Swedish: “Kantara”
- Turkish: “Kantara, Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Kantara, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Kantara, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Kantara, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Kantara”
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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 “Kantara”. Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.