Cyprus
Limassol district
Aléktora

Alektora

Alektora, also known as Gökağaç, is a village in the of . It was established in the first millennium by residents of nearby villages and gradually Turkified and Islamicised during the rule of the Ottomans.
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  • Type: Village with 64 residents
  • Description: community in Limassol District, Republic of Cyprus
  • Also known as: “Alectora”, “Alehtora”, “Alekhtora”, and “Gökağaç”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Platanisteia and Ágios Thomás.

Hamlet
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is a village in the of , located 6 km north of . Prior to 1960, the village was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots. is situated 2½ km east of Alektora.

Village
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Agios Thomas is a village in the of , located 5 km northwest of . Until 1974, Agios Thomas had an exclusively Turkish Cypriot population. is situated 4 km east of Alektora.

Village
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is a in the , , located approximately thirty kilometres west of ’s centre, between Limassol and . is situated 5 km south of Alektora.

Alektora

Latitude
34.70941° or 34° 42′ 34″ north
Longitude
32.6832° or 32° 40′ 60″ east
Population
64
Elevation
237 metres (778 feet)
Open location code
8G6JPM5M+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 292153221
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
146832
Wiki­data ID
Q4716046
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“Alektora” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ալեկտորա”
  • Bulgarian: “Алектора”
  • Dutch: “Alektora”
  • French: “Aléktora”
  • German: “Alektora”
  • Greek: “Aléktora”
  • Greek: “Αλέκτορα”
  • Hungarian: “Aléktora”
  • Latvian: “Alektora”
  • Persian: “الکتورا”
  • Polish: “Alektora”
  • Russian: “Алектора”
  • Spanish: “Alektora”
  • Turkish: “Alektora”

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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 “Alektora”. Photo: Xaris333, CC BY-SA 4.0.