Chrysospiliotissa

Chrysospiliotissa is a quarter in , . Chrysospiliotissa is situated nearby to the quarter , as well as near .
  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: quarter of Famagusta Municipality
  • Also known as: “Zafer”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque - St. Nicholas’s Cathedral and Ganchvor Sourp Asdvadzadzin.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, originally known as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas and later as the Saint Sophia Mosque of Mağusa, is the largest medieval building in , . is situated 2½ km northeast of Chrysospiliotissa.

Church
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ganchvor Monastery is the Armenian Apostolic church in , Cyprus. is situated 2½ km north of Chrysospiliotissa.

Historic building
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nestorian Church, officially known as the Church of St. George the Exiler is a church in the old town of , founded in 1360. Originally built as a church belonging to the Church of the East, an ancient Nestorian branch of Eastern Christianity, it was converted to a Greek Orthodox Church in the British era after centuries of use as a stable for camels in the Ottoman era.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Famagusta and Varosha.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a city in , with a population of 55,648 in 2019. It's a seaport and tourist resort and has a walled old centre created in the 13th century.

Suburb
Photo: Andrew Milligan sumo, CC BY 2.0.
is the southern quarter of , a de jure territory of , currently under the control of . had a population of 226 in the 2011 Northern Cyprus census. The area of is 6.19 km2.

Photo: panagiotys maimaride…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large village in the island of . It is located on the east side of the island, 2 km south of the city of . The population of the village is 5,758 and it consists of a municipality since 1994.

Chrysospiliotissa

Latitude
35.1059° or 35° 6′ 21″ north
Longitude
33.92759° or 33° 55′ 39″ east
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
8G7M4W4H+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11814057263
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
11951813
Wiki­data ID
Q47326636
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In Other Languages

From Greek to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Chrysospiliotissa” goes by many names.
  • Greek: “Κάτω Βαρώσι”
  • Greek: “Χρυσοσπηλιώτισσα”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khrysospiliótissa”

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