Episkopi
Episkopi is a village and a municipal district of the Kourion Municipality lying partly in the Limassol district of Cyprus and partly in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,680 residents
- Description: community in Limassol District, Republic of Cyprus
- Also known as: “Episkopi, Limassol”, “Piskobu”, and “Yalova”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kourion and Kolossi Castle.
Kourion
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kourion was an important ancient Greek city-state on the southwestern coast of the island of Cyprus. In the twelfth century BCE, after the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces, Greek settlers from Argos arrived on this site.
Kolossi Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kolossi Castle is a former Crusader stronghold on the south-west edge of Kolossi village 14 kilometres west of the city of Limassol on the island of Cyprus. Kolossi Castle is situated 3 km east of Episkopi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Erimi and Kolossi.
Erimi
Village
Erimi is a village and a municipal district of the Kourion Municipality, lying partly in the Limassol District of Cyprus and partly in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
Kolossi
Village
Photo: Xaris333, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kolossi is a village and municipal district of the Kourion Municipality on the outskirts of Limassol, Cyprus. It lies partly in the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Its population in 2021 was 6,482. Kolossi is situated 3½ km east of Episkopi.
Trachoni
Town
Photo: Xaris333, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trachoni is a large village lying partly in the Limassol District of Cyprus, and partly in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. As of 2011, it had a population of 3,952. Trachoni is situated 6 km east of Episkopi.
Episkopi
- Categories: community of Cyprus Republic, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Episkopí, Limassol district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.67043° or 34° 40′ 14″ northLongitude
32.90186° or 32° 54′ 7″ eastPopulation
3,680Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)IATA airport code
EPKUnited Nations Location Code
CY EPKOpen location code
8G6JMWC2+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 268526913OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
146633Wikidata ID
Q5383505
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Episkopi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيبسكوبي”
- Basque: “Episkopi”
- Bulgarian: “Епископи”
- Cebuano: “Episkopí”
- Chinese: “埃皮斯科皮”
- Czech: “Episkopi”
- Dutch: “Episkopi, Limassol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايبسكوبى”
- Finnish: “Episkopí”
- French: “Episkopi”
- French: “Episkopí”
- German: “Episkopi”
- Greek: “Episkopí”
- Greek: “Επισκοπή Λεμεσού”
- Greek: “Επισκοπή”
- Hindi: “एपिस्कोपी, लिमासोल”
- Hungarian: “Episkopí”
- Irish: “Episkopi”
- Marathi: “एपिस्कोपी (लिमासोल)”
- Marathi: “एपिस्कोपी”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Episkopí i Lemesós”
- Persian: “ایپیسکوپی”
- Polish: “Episkopi (dystrykt Limassol)”
- Polish: “Episkopi”
- Pushto: “ايپسکوپي”
- Russian: “Эпископи”
- Slovak: “Episkopi”
- Spanish: “Episkopi”
- Spanish: “Episkopí”
- Swedish: “Episkopí, Limassol”
- Swedish: “Episkopí”
- Turkish: “Piskobu, Limasol”
- Ukrainian: “Епіскопі”
- Urdu: “ایپسکوپی”
- Western Panjabi: “ایپسکوپی”
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