Famagusta

Famagusta 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.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • Type: City with 42,500 residents
  • Description: city in northern Cyprus
  • Also known as: Ammochostos”, “Ammochostus”, “Ammokhostos”, “Gazi Magosa”, “Gazimağusa”, and “Mağusa

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 Famagusta, .

Church
is the Armenian Apostolic church in Famagusta, Cyprus.

Historic building
The Nestorian Church, officially known as the Church of St. George the Exiler is a church in the old town of Famagusta, . 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 Varosha.

Suburb
is the southern quarter of Famagusta, 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.

Famagusta

Latitude
35.1205° or 35° 7′ 14″ north
Longitude
33.9388° or 33° 56′ 20″ east
Population
42,500
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CY FMG
Open location code
8G7M4WCQ+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306213529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
146617
Wiki­data ID
Q193190
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Famagusta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: الماغوصة
  • Arabic: فاماغوستا
  • Arabic: مدينة فاماغوستا
  • Armenian: Ֆամագուստա
  • Asturian: Famagusta
  • Azerbaijani: Famaqusta
  • Basque: Famagusta
  • Belarusian: Фамагуста
  • Bengali: ফামাগুস্তা
  • Bengali: ফামাগোস্তা
  • Bulgarian: Фамагуста
  • Catalan: Famagosta
  • Catalan: Famagusta
  • Cebuano: Famagusta
  • Chinese: 法馬古斯塔
  • Chinese: 法马古斯塔
  • Chinese: 阿莫霍斯托斯
  • Croatian: Famagusta
  • Czech: Famagusta
  • Danish: Famagusta
  • Danish: Farmagusta
  • Dutch: Ammochostos
  • Dutch: Famagusta
  • Egyptian Arabic: فاماجوستا
  • Esperanto: Famagusta
  • Estonian: Famagusta
  • Finnish: Ammohostos
  • Finnish: Famagusta
  • French: Ammochostos
  • French: Ammóchostos
  • French: Ammohostos
  • French: Famagouste
  • French: Gazimağusa
  • Gagauz: Gazimağusa
  • Galician: Famagusta
  • Georgian: ფამაგუსტა
  • German: Ammochostos
  • German: Ammóchostos
  • German: Famagusta
  • German: Gazi Magusa
  • German: Gazi Mağusa
  • German: Gazimagusa
  • German: Gazimağusa
  • German: Ğazimağusa
  • German: Magusa
  • German: Mağusa
  • Greek: Ammóchostos
  • Greek: Αμμόχωστος
  • Greek: Γκαζιμαγούσα
  • Greek: Φαμαγκούστα
  • Guarani: Famagusta
  • Gujarati: ફેમાગુસ્તા
  • Hebrew: פמגוסטה
  • Hindi: फामागुस्ता
  • Hungarian: Famagusta
  • Hungarian: Gazimağusa
  • Indonesian: Famagusta
  • Italian: Famagosta
  • Italian: Famagusta
  • Japanese: アモホストス
  • Japanese: ガーズィマウサ
  • Japanese: ガズィマウサ
  • Japanese: ファマグスタ
  • Kannada: ಫಮಗುಸ್ತ
  • Korean: 가지마구사
  • Korean: 암모호스토스
  • Korean: 파마구스타
  • Latin: Arsinoë
  • Latin: Fama Augusta
  • Latvian: Famagusta
  • Limburgan: Mağusa
  • Lithuanian: Famagusta
  • Lithuanian: Magusa
  • Macedonian: Амохостос
  • Macedonian: Фамагуста
  • Malay: Famagusta
  • Malayalam: ഫാമഗുസ്ത
  • Marathi: फॅग्रुस्ता
  • Nepali: फामागुस्ता
  • Northern Frisian: Famagusta
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ammókhostos
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Famagusta
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Ammókhostos
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Famagusta
  • Norwegian: Famagusta
  • Occitan (post 1500): Famagosta
  • Ossetian: Фамагустæ
  • Persian: فاماگوستا
  • Polish: Ammochosto
  • Polish: Famagusta
  • Pontic: Αμμόχωστος
  • Portuguese: Famagusta
  • Romanian: Famagusta
  • Russian: Аммохостос
  • Russian: Газимагуса
  • Russian: Магоса
  • Russian: Фамагуста
  • Scots: Famagusta
  • Serbian: Amohostos
  • Serbian: Αμμόχωστος
  • Serbian: Амохостос
  • Serbian: Фамагуста
  • Serbo-Croatian: Famagusta
  • Silesian: Famagusta
  • Sindhi: فاماگستا
  • Sinhala: ෆමගස්ටා
  • Sinhala: ෆැමගස්ටා
  • Sinhala: ෆැමගුස්ටා, සයිප්‍රසය
  • Slovak: Ammochostos
  • Slovak: Famagusta
  • Slovak: Gazimağusa
  • Slovak: Mağusa
  • Slovenian: Amohostos
  • Slovenian: Famagusta
  • Slovenian: Magusa
  • Spanish: Famagusta
  • Spanish: Magosa
  • Swedish: Ammochostos
  • Swedish: Famagosta
  • Swedish: Famagusta
  • Swedish: Gazimağusa
  • Swedish: Mağusa
  • Swedish: Αμμόχωστος
  • Tamil: பாமகுஸ்டா
  • Tamil: பாமங்குஸ்தா
  • Telugu: ఫామాగుస్తా
  • Thai: ฟามากุสตา
  • Turkish: Famagusta
  • Turkish: Gazi Mağusa
  • Turkish: Gazimagosa
  • Turkish: Gazimağusa, KKTC
  • Turkish: Gazimağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriye
  • Turkish: Gazimağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs
  • Turkish: Gazimağusa
  • Turkish: Magosa
  • Turkish: Mağusa, KKTC
  • Turkish: Mağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Mağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs
  • Turkish: Magusa
  • Turkish: Mağusa
  • Ukrainian: Фамагуста
  • Ukrainian: Фамаґуста
  • Urdu: Famagusta
  • Urdu: فاماگوستا
  • Uzbek: Famagusta
  • Vietnamese: Famagusta
  • Waray (Philippines): Famagusta
  • Western Armenian: Ֆամակուստա
  • Western Frisian: Famagusta
  • Western Panjabi: فاماگوستا
  • Wu Chinese: 阿莫霍斯托斯
  • Ammohostos
  • Famagusta
  • Gazimağusa
  • Mağusa

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