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.Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Kyrenia Castle
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kyrenia Castle at the east end of the old harbour in Kyrenia is a 16th-century castle built by the Venetians over a previous Crusader fortification.
Localities in the Area
Templos
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.Kyrenia
- Type: City with 33,200 residents
- Description: place in Kyrenia District, Cyprus
- Categories: City-kingdom of Cyprus and locality
- Location: Keryneia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.3353° or 35° 20' 7" northLongitude
33.3188° or 33° 19' 8" eastPopulation
33,200Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)United Nations Location Code
CY KYROpen Location Code
8G7M88P9+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 676672956OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
146412Wikidata ID
Q206760Kyrenia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Girne
- Arabic: Kyrenia
- Arabic: غرنة
- Arabic: كيرينيا
- Arabic: مدينة كيرينيا
- Armenian: Կիրենիա
- Asturian: Kyrenia
- Azerbaijani: Girnə
- Basque: Kirenia
- Belarusian: Кірэнія
- Bulgarian: Кирения
- 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
- English: Girne
- English: Kato Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus
- English: Kato Kyrenia
- English: Kato Kyrenia Northern Cyprus
- English: Keryneia
- English: Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus
- English: Kyrenia Northern Cyprus
- English: Kyrèneia
- English: Pano Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus
- English: Pano Kyrenia
- English: Pano Kyrenia Northern Cyprus
- 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: Kirenija
- Lithuanian: Kirenėja
- Lithuanian: Kirėnija
- Macedonian: Киренија
- Moksha: Кирэния
- Norwegian: Kyrenia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Girne
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kyrenia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kyrínia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Byen Kyrenia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kerýnia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kyrínia på Kypros
- 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
- Slovak: Girne
- Slovak: Keryneia
- Slovak: Kyrenia
- Slovenian: Kirenija
- Spanish: Kirenia
- Spanish: Kyrenia
- Swedish: Kerynia
- Swedish: Kyrenia
- Turkish: Girne, KKTC
- Turkish: Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs
- Turkish: Girne, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti
- Turkish: Girne
- Turkish: Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs
- Turkish: Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti
- Turkish: Kyrenia
- Ukrainian: Кіренія
- Urdu: Kyrenia
- Urdu: کیرینیہ
- Vietnamese: Kyrenia
- Waray (Philippines): Kyrenia
- Western Panjabi: کیرینیا
- Kérynia
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kyrenia. Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.