Cyprus. A walk in Larnaca / Μια βόλτα στην Λάρνακα - 06/2016
Cyprus. A walk in Larnaca. June 9-23 , 2016
00:03 - A night in Larnaca:
00:03 - The Piale Pasa street.
00:25 - In the centre of the old city. The streets: Kosma Lysioti, Ermou, Nikolaou Rossou, Pavlou Valsamaki, Agiou Lazarou.
01:27 - Τhe Finikoudes Promenade.
02:35 - The port of Larnaca Marina.
02:48 - A night on the Salt Lake.
03:02 - A morning on the Salt Lake:
03:02 - The Salt Lake Hiking Trail.
04:33 - The Kamares Aqueduct (Bekir Pasha Aqueduct).
05:02 - The Salt Lake Park.
05:37 - In the centre of Larnaca:
05:37 - The Agia Faneromeni Church. The Catacomb.
06:16 - The Archiepiskopou Makariou III Avenue. The Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue.
06:57 - The Archaeological site of Ancient Kition on the Kimonos street.
07:20 - The Archaeological site of Ancient Kition on the Archiepiskopou Kyprianou street.
08:09 - On the Artemidos street:
08:19 - The Forest of the Larnaca International Airport.
08:49 - The ELDYK Memorial Park (The Hellenic Force in Cyprus or ELDYK).
09:11 - A view of the Salt Lake.
09:45 - The Mosque of Umm Haram (Hala Sultan Tekke).
11:05 - A residential real estate area on the Piale Pasa and Touzhane streets. A view of the Larnaca International Airport.
11:36 - The former Turkish area of Larnaca:
11:36 - The Piale Pasa street.
11:48 - The Kastela Beach.
12:15 - The Larnaca Bay (Psarolimano).
12:31 - The streets: Piale Pasa, Mehmet Ali, Tanzimat, Hadji Ibrahim, Seyhan.
13:51 - The Kebir-Buyuk Mosque.
14:12 - In the centre of the old city:
14:12 - The streets: Kosma Lysioti, Ermou, Zinonos Kitieos, Nikolaou Laniti, Agiou Lazarou.
14:49 - The Church of Saint Lazarus. The interior of the Church and the Tomb of St. Lazarus.
16:20 - On the Finikoudes Promenade:
16:36 - The Venetian Lion Monument.
16:57 - The Bust of Athenian General Kimon.
17:24 - The Armenian Genocide Monument.
17:36 - The Europe Square (Plateia Evropeis).
17:47 - The philosopher Zeno of Kition Statue.
17:54 - The port of Larnaca Marina and a mini sea cruise.
19:03 - The Castle of Larnaca.
21:42 - The Finikoudes Beach.
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Μια βόλτα στην Λάρνακα. 9-23 Ιουνίου 2016
00:03 - Μια νύχτα στην Λάρνακα:
00:03 - Η οδός Πιαλέ Πασά.
00:25 - Στο κέντρο της παλαιάς πόλης. Οι οδοί: Κοσμά Λυσιώτη, Ερμού, Νικολάου Ρώσσου, Πάυλου Βαλσαμάκη, Αγίου Λαζάρου.
01:27 - Οι Φοινικούδες.
02:35 - Η Μαρίνα Λάρνακας.
02:48 - Μια νύχτα στην Αλυκή Λάρνακας.
03:02 - Ένα πρωί στην Αλυκή Λάρνακας:
03:02 - Ο Πεζόδρομος Αλυκής.
04:33 - Το Παλαιό Υδραγωγείο Λάρνακας.
05:02 - Το πάρκο της Αλυκής της Λάρνακας.
05:37 - Στο κέντρο της πόλης:
05:37 - Ο Ιερός Ναός Παναγίας Φανερωμένης. Οι Κατακόμβες.
06:16 - Στο Λεωφόρο Αρχιεπίσκοπου Μακάριου Γ'. Στο Λεωφόρο Σπύρου Κυπριανόυ.
06:57 - Ο Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Αρχαίο Κίτιον στην οδό Κίμωνος.
07:20 - Ο Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Αρχαίο Κίτιον στην οδό Αρχιεπίσκοπου Κυπριανόυ.
08:09 - Στην οδό Αρτέμιδος:
08:19 - Το Δάσος Αερολίμενα.
08:49 - Το πάρκο πεσόντων ΕΛΔΥΚ (Η Ελληνική Δύναμη Κύπρου).
09:11 - H Αλυκή Λάρνακας.
09:45 - Το τζαμί Χαλά Σουλτάν Τεκκέ. Το εσωτερικό του τζαμιού και ο τάφος της Ουμ Χαράμ.
11:05 - Οι πολυκατοικίες στις οδούς Πιαλέ Πασά και Τουζχανέ. Μια άποψη του Αερολιμένα της Λάρνακας.
11:36 - Η πρώην τουρκική συνοικία:
11:36 - Η οδός Πιαλέ Πασά.
11:48 - Η Παραλία Καστέλλας.
12:15 - Το Ψαρολίμανο Λάρνακας.
12:31 - Οι οδοί: Πιαλέ Πασά, Μεχμέτ Αλή, Τανζιμάτ, Χατζή Ιμπραγκίμ, Σεϊχαν.
13:51 - Το τζαμί Κεμπίρ-Μπουγιούκ.
14:12 - Στο κέντρο της παλαιάς πόλης:
14:12 - Οι οδοί: Κοσμά Λυσιώτη, Ερμού, Ζήνωνος Κιτιέως, Νικολάου Λανίτη, Αγίου Λαζάρου.
14:49 - Ο Ιερός Ναός Αγίου Λαζάρου. Το εσωτερικό του Ναού και τα λείψανα του Αγίου Λαζάρου.
16:20 - Στην οδό Αθηνών (Οι Φοινικούδες):
16:36 - Ο φτερωτός Λέων της Βενετίας.
16:57 - Το άγαλμα του Κίμωνα.
17:24 - Το μνημείο αφιερωμένο στη Γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων.
17:36 - H Πλατεία Ευρώπης.
17:47 - Το άγαλμα του Ζήνωνα.
17:54 - Η Μαρίνα Λαρνακας και μια μίνι-κρουαζιέρα στη θάλασσα.
19:03 - Το Κάστρο της Λάρνακας.
21:42 - Η Παραλία Φοινικούντες.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Larnaca, is the third largest city on the southern coast of Cyprus after Nicosia and Limassol. It has a population of 72,000 (2010) and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort. Larnaca was founded by Greeks (Mycenaean-Achaeans) in the 14th century B.C. and was known as Kition, or (in Latin) Citium.
The most important site of Larnaca are the ruins of Ancient Kitium.
Another place of interest is the Marble Bust of Zeno. Zeno of Citium ( c. 334 BC -- c. 262 BC) was a philosopher from Citium, a Greek city on Cyprus that had received some Phoenician settlers. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy.
Palm tree promenade got its name from the palm trees that line either side of the street. It runs parallel to the beach in the old town of Larnaca. The tourist beach provides full amenities and facilities.
Outdoor cafes, English-style pubs and restaurants line the street and tourists have a choice of sitting at the restaurants and watching the waves or bathing in the warm Larnaca waters. Halfway along the seafront is the statue of the Classical Greek naval officer Kimon, who died here in a great battle with the Persians. Next to the promenade is also a large marina with berths for several hundred yachts.
The Pierides Foundation Museum houses a remarkable private exhibition of Cypriot antiquities.
Zeno's Rail Slides
On Friday evening, May 18, 2012, several rail-slides were executed at the base of the Zeno of Citium statue in Larnaka, Cyprus. Zeno (344-266BCE) hailed from the ancient city of Citium which is just north of presentday Cyprus. A statue was put up in Larnaka to memorialize one of the founders of stoicism. Today, skate-boarders perform ollie impossibles near and rail-slides on (among other sweet moves) the immortalized Zeno. Skate or die, Zeno.
Ancient Kition
Kition (Kittim) is mentioned in the Bible. Perhaps Noah's great-grandson, Kittim, is its founder. Alternatively, it was named after, Cethimus, who owned the island Cethima (Cyprus). The ancient city belongs to the late Bronze Age and it was discovered by the British in 1879. In the 12th century BC it was surrounded by cyclopean fortress walls, and the culture had Mycenaean influence. Later, Kition was controlled by the Phoenicians, who built the temple of Astarte (Aphrodite), the largest one discovered so far. Its area is 27x9m, and the sanctuary is 22x2.5m. It is an elevation where statues of three deities and an altar used to be. There also used to be an industrial plant for copper smelting. Resheph, the god of fire and lightning, war, the patron of arms used to be city’s god. The city is the birthplace of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the ancient Greek stoic philosophical school. Most of the Kition artefacts are in the British Museum, however many are in the local Pierides museum.
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Zeno of Citium (; Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic thinker from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus, and probably of Phoenician descent. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of Virtue in accordance with Nature. It proved very popular, and flourished as one of the major schools of philosophy from the Hellenistic period through to the Roman era.
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Cyprus ( ( listen); Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).Cyprus was placed under British administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by Britain in 1914. While Turkish Cypriots made up 18% of the population, the partition of Cyprus and creation of a Turkish state in the north became a policy of Turkish Cypriot leaders and Turkey in the 1950s. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an extension of Anatolia by them; while, since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriot population and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. In 1963, the 11-year intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots started, which displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus in the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed, and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established by unilateral declaration in 1983; the move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognizing the new state. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.
The Republic of Cyprus has de jure sovereignty over the entire island, including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, with the exception of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which remain under British control according to the London and Zürich Agreements. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island's area; and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island's area. Another nearly 4% of the island's area is covered by the UN buffer zone. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus became a member of the European Union.Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Mediterranean. With an advanced, high ...
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Cyprus ( (listen); Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).Cyprus was placed under British administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by Britain in 1914. While Turkish Cypriots made up 18% of the population, the partition of Cyprus and creation of a Turkish state in the north became a policy of Turkish Cypriot leaders and Turkey in the 1950s. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an extension of Anatolia by them; while, since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriot population and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. In 1963, the 11-year intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots started, which displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus in the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed, and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established by unilateral declaration in 1983; the move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognizing the new state. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.
The Republic of Cyprus has de jure sovereignty over the entire island, including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, with the exception of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which remain under British control according to the London and Zürich Agreements. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island's area; and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island's area. Another nearly 4% of the island's area is covered by the UN buffer zone. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus became a member of the European Union.Cyprus is ...
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Cyprus ( ( listen); Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).Cyprus was placed under British administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by Britain in 1914. While Turkish Cypriots made up 18% of the population, the partition of Cyprus and creation of a Turkish state in the north became a policy of Turkish Cypriot leaders and Turkey in the 1950s. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an extension of Anatolia by them; while, since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriot population and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. In 1963, the 11-year intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots started, which displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus in the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed, and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established by unilateral declaration in 1983; the move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognizing the new state. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.
The Republic of Cyprus has de jure sovereignty over the entire island, including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, with the exception of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which remain under British control according to the London and Zürich Agreements. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island's area; and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island's area. Another nearly 4% of the island's area is covered by the UN buffer zone. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus became a member of the European Union.Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Mediterranean. With an advanced, high ...
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Cyprus ( (listen); Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).Cyprus was placed under British administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by Britain in 1914. While Turkish Cypriots made up 18% of the population, the partition of Cyprus and creation of a Turkish state in the north became a policy of Turkish Cypriot leaders and Turkey in the 1950s. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an extension of Anatolia by them; while, since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriot population and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. In 1963, the 11-year intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots started, which displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus in the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed, and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established by unilateral declaration in 1983; the move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognizing the new state. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.
The Republic of Cyprus has de jure sovereignty over the entire island, including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, with the exception of the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which remain under British control according to the London and Zürich Agreements. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and comprising about 59% of the island's area; and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island's area. Another nearly 4% of the island's area is covered by the UN buffer zone. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus became a member of the European Union.Cyprus is ...