Kykkos
Kykkos Monastery, which lies 20 km west of Pedoulas, is one of the wealthiest and best-known monasteries in Cyprus. The Holy Monastery of the Virgin of Kykkos was founded around the end of the 11th century by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: monastery in Cyprus
- Also known as: “Kykkos Monastery”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mylikouri and Tsakistra.
Mylikouri
Village
Tsakistra
Village
Tsakistra is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located 3 km south of Kampos. Tsakistra is situated 5 km north of Kykkos.
Gerakies
Village
Photo: Bayreuth2009, CC BY 3.0.
Gerakies is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located 4 km west of Moutoullas. Gerakies is situated 6 km east of Kykkos.
Kykkos
- Categories: monastery, mausoleum, and locality
- Location: Tsakístra, Nicosia, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.98324° or 34° 58′ 60″ northLongitude
32.74191° or 32° 44′ 31″ eastOpen location code
8G6JXPMR+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 60192637OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q225373
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kykkos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير كيكوس”
- Azerbaijani: “Kikkos monastrı”
- Basque: “Kykkos monasterioa”
- Bulgarian: “манастир Кикос”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Kikkos”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Kikos”
- Catalan: “monestir de l’Arcàngel Miquel”
- Catalan: “monestir del Reial Sant i Stavropègic de la Panagia de Kikkos”
- Cebuano: “Kykkos”
- Danish: “Kykkos kloster”
- Dutch: “Kykkosklooster”
- Finnish: “Kýkkoksen luostari”
- French: “monastère de Kykkos”
- French: “Monastère de Kýkkos”
- German: “Kloster Kykkos”
- German: “Kykkos”
- Greek: “Ιερά Μονή Κύκκου”
- Greek: “Κύκκος”
- Greek: “Μονή Κύκκου”
- Hebrew: “מנזר קיקוס”
- Indonesian: “Biara Kykkos”
- Italian: “Monastero di Kykkos”
- Japanese: “キッコス修道院”
- Lithuanian: “Kiko vienuolynas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kykkos kloster”
- Norwegian: “Kykkos kloster”
- Polish: “Klasztor Kykkos”
- Russian: “Киккос”
- Russian: “Киккский монастырь”
- Russian: “Монастырь Киккос”
- Serbian: “Манастир Кикос”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Kykkos”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de Kikkos”
- Swedish: “Kykkos”
- Turkish: “Cikko Manastırı”
- Ukrainian: “Кікський монастир”
- Ukrainian: “Монастир Кікос”
- Western Frisian: “Kykkoskleaster”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Kykkos”. Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.