Kyrenia
Kyrenia is the chief port and tourist resort of Northern Cyprus. Its old centre is dominated by the castle over the harbour, built by the Venetians in 1540.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 33,200 residents
- Description: place in Kyrenia District, Northern Cyprus
- Also known as: “Girne”, “Kato Kyrenia”, “Kato Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, “Kato Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”, “Keryneia”, “Kérynia”, “Kyrèneia”, “Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, “Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”, “Pano Kyrenia”, “Pano Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, and “Pano Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kyrenia Castle and Agha Cafer Pasha Mosque, Kyrenia.
Kyrenia Castle
Castle
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kyrenia Castle is a 16th-century castle built by the Venetians over a previous Crusader fortification. Within its walls lies a twelfth-century chapel showing reused late Roman capitals, and the Shipwreck Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Templos and Thermeia.
Templos
Village
Templos is a Turkish Cypriot village in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus, two miles west of Kyrenia. It is thought to be named after the Knights Templar, because during the Lusignan period it was one of their headquarters.
Thermeia
Village
Thermeia is a historic village, now a suburb of Kyrenia, Cyprus. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus. Its population in 2011 was 868.
Karakoumi
Village
Karakoumi is a village in Cyprus, located about 2 kilometers from Kyrenia. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus.
Kyrenia
- Categories: City-kingdom of Cyprus and locality
- Location: Keryneia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.3396° or 35° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
33.3205° or 33° 19′ 14″ eastPopulation
33,200Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)United Nations Location Code
CY KYROpen location code
8G7M88QC+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 676672956OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kyrenia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرنة”
- Arabic: “كيرينيا”
- Arabic: “مدينة كيرينيا”
- Armenian: “Կիրենիա”
- Asturian: “Kyrenia”
- Azerbaijani: “Girnə”
- Basque: “Kirenia”
- Belarusian: “Кірэнія”
- Bulgarian: “Кирения”
- Catalan: “Cerinea”
- Catalan: “Girne”
- Cebuano: “Kyrenia”
- Chinese: “凯里尼亚”
- Chinese: “凱里尼亞”
- Croatian: “Kyrenia”
- Czech: “Kyrenia”
- Dimli (individual language): “Girne”
- Dutch: “Girne”
- Dutch: “Keryneia”
- Dutch: “Kyrenia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرنه”
- Esperanto: “Kyrenia”
- Estonian: “Girne”
- Estonian: “Keryneia”
- Estonian: “Kyrenia”
- Finnish: “Kyrenia”
- French: “Girne”
- French: “Kerýneia”
- French: “Kyrenia”
- French: “Kyrénia”
- French: “Κερύνεια”
- Gagauz: “Girne”
- Georgian: “კირენია”
- German: “Girne”
- German: “Kerynia”
- German: “Kyrenia”
- Greek: “Kerýneia”
- Greek: “Κερύνεια”
- Greek: “Κυρήνεια”
- Hebrew: “גירנה”
- Hebrew: “קירניה”
- Hungarian: “Girne”
- Hungarian: “Kerínia”
- Indonesian: “Kyrenia”
- Italian: “Girne”
- Italian: “Kyrenia”
- Japanese: “キュレニア”
- Japanese: “キレニア”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Girne”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kireniya”
- Kinyarwanda: “Girne”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kyrenia”
- Korean: “기르네”
- Korean: “케리니아”
- Korean: “키레니아”
- Lithuanian: “Girnė”
- Lithuanian: “Kirenėja”
- Lithuanian: “Kirenija”
- Lithuanian: “Kirėnija”
- Low German: “Kyrenia”
- Luxembourgish: “Kyrenia”
- Macedonian: “Киренија”
- Moksha: “Кирэния”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Girne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrenia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrínia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Kyrenia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerýnia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyrínia på Kypros”
- Norwegian: “Kyrenia”
- Ossetian: “Кирини”
- Persian: “کایرنیا”
- Persian: “گیرنه”
- Polish: “Kirenia”
- Polish: “Kyrenia”
- Pontic: “Κερύνειαν”
- Portuguese: “Cirénia”
- Portuguese: “Cirênia”
- Portuguese: “Girne”
- Portuguese: “Kyrenia”
- Romanian: “Kyrenia”
- Russian: “Гирне”
- Russian: “Керинея”
- Russian: “Кирения”
- Russian: “Кириния”
- Scots: “Kyrenia”
- Serbian: “Kerineja”
- Serbian: “Κερύνεια”
- Serbian: “Керинеја”
- Serbian: “Киренија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerineja”
- Slovak: “Girne”
- Slovak: “Keryneia”
- Slovak: “Kyrenia”
- Slovenian: “Kirenija”
- Spanish: “Kirenia”
- Spanish: “Kyrenia”
- Swedish: “Kerynia”
- Swedish: “Kyrenia”
- Turkish: “Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Girne, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Girne”
- Turkish: “Kyrenia”
- Ukrainian: “Кіренія”
- Urdu: “Kyrenia”
- Urdu: “کیرینیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Kyrenia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kyrenia”
- Western Frisian: “Kyrenia”
- Western Panjabi: “کیرینیا”
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