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.
- Type: City with 33,200 residents
- Description: place in Kyrenia District, Northern Cyprus
- Also known as: “Byen Kyrenia”, “Cirênia”, “Girnė”, “Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs”, “Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”, “Girne, KKTC”, “Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs”, “Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”, “Kato Kyrenia”, “Kato Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, “Kato Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”, “Keryneia”, “Kerynia”, “Kérynia”, “Kirenėja”, “Kirėnija”, “Kireniya”, “Kyrèneia”, “Kyrénia”, “Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, “Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”, “Kyrínia”, “Pano Kyrenia”, “Pano Kyrenia Northern Cyprus”, “Pano Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus”, “Κυρήνεια”, “Гирне”, “Керинея”, “גירנה”, “كيرينيا”, “مدينة كيرينيا”, “기르네”, “케리니아”, and “キュレニア”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kyrenia Castle and Agha Cafer Pasha Mosque, Kyrenia.
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.
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″ north
Longitude
33.3205° or 33° 19′ 14″ east
Population
33,200
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CY KYR
Open location code
8G7M88QC+V6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Kyrenia” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኪሬኒያ”
- Arabic: “غرنة”
- Armenian: “Կիրենիա”
- Asturian: “Kyrenia”
- Azerbaijani: “Girnə”
- Azerbaijani: “Kirenia”
- Basque: “Kirenia”
- Belarusian: “Кірэнія”
- Bengali: “কিরেনিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Кирения”
- Catalan: “Cerinea”
- Cebuano: “Kyrenia”
- Chinese: “凯里尼亚”
- Chinese: “凱里尼亞”
- Croatian: “Kyrenia”
- Czech: “Kyrenia”
- Dimli (individual language): “Girne”
- Dutch: “Girne”
- Dutch: “Kyrenia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرنه”
- Esperanto: “Kirenia”
- Estonian: “Kyrenia”
- Finnish: “Kyrenia”
- French: “Kyrenia”
- Gagauz: “Girne”
- Georgian: “კირენია”
- German: “Kyrenia”
- Greek: “Kerýneia”
- Greek: “Κερύνεια”
- Hausa: “Kyrenia”
- Hebrew: “קירניה”
- Hindi: “किरेनिया”
- Hungarian: “Girne”
- Hungarian: “Kerínia”
- Indonesian: “Kyrenia”
- Italian: “Kyrenia”
- Japanese: “キレニア”
- Javanese: “Kyrenia”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Girne”
- Kazakh: “Кирения”
- Kinyarwanda: “Girne”
- Kirghiz: “Кирения”
- Korean: “키레니아”
- Lithuanian: “Kirenija”
- Low German: “Kyrenia”
- Luxembourgish: “Bezierk Kyrenia”
- Luxembourgish: “Kyrenia”
- Macedonian: “Киренија”
- Malay: “Kyrenia”
- Moksha: “Кирэния”
- Northern Frisian: “Kyrenia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrenia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerýnia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyrínia på Kypros”
- Norwegian: “Kyrenia”
- Oromo: “Kyrenia”
- Ossetian: “Кирини”
- Panjabi: “ਕਿਰੇਨੀਆ”
- Persian: “کایرنیا”
- Persian: “گیرنه”
- Polish: “Kirenia”
- Pontic: “Κερύνειαν”
- Portuguese: “Cirénia”
- Pushto: “کرینیا”
- Romanian: “Kyrenia”
- Russian: “Кирения”
- Russian: “Кириния”
- Scots: “Kyrenia”
- Serbian: “Kerineja”
- Serbian: “Керинеја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerineja”
- Sinhala: “කයිරෙනියා, සයිප්රසය”
- Slovak: “Girne”
- Slovenian: “Kirenija”
- Somali: “Kyrenia”
- Spanish: “Kyrenia”
- Swahili: “Kyrenia”
- Swedish: “Kyrenia”
- Tajik: “Кирения”
- Tatar: “Кирения”
- Turkish: “Girne”
- Ukrainian: “Кіренія”
- Urdu: “کیرینیہ”
- Uzbek: “Kirenia”
- Vietnamese: “Kyrenia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kyrenia”
- Western Frisian: “Kyrenia”
- Western Panjabi: “کیرینیا”
- “Girne”
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Places to explore: Upper Kyrenia Turkish Quarter and Kato Keryneia.
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