Pyla
Sign in to savePyla ( (); ) is a village in Larnaca District, Cyprus. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone, the other three being Athienou, Troulloi and Deneia. Pyla is located in the eastern part of the island, adjacent to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia. From a legal point of view, it is administered as all other areas controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, but policed by UN peacekeepers.
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Vinony's link graph records 184 inbound references to Pyla, and connects out to Akrotiri and Dhekelia, United States and France.
The entry is geolocated on the map in CY, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Communities in Larnaca District.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pyla
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Pyla centre.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view from Pyla in 2009
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cyprus
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- y
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Larnaca
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 2771
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +2
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- +3
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Larnaca District
- Official name
- Πύλα
- Country
- Cyprus
- Located in
- Larnaca District
- Population
- 2771
- Area
- 28.3386
- Elevation
- 60
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Troulloi
- Official website
- www.pyla.com.cy
- Image
- Pyla centre.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pyla, Cyprus
- postal code
- 7081
- native label
- Πύλα
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Pyla Tourist Area
- Sports
- 2023 crisis
- Famous people from Pyla
- References
Pyla ( (); ) is a village in Larnaca District, Cyprus. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone, the other three being Athienou, Troulloi and Deneia. Pyla is located in the eastern part of the island, adjacent to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia. From a legal point of view, it is administered as all other areas controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, but policed by UN peacekeepers.
The village is special in the respect that it is the only settlement in Cyprus still inhabited by both its original Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot inhabitants. 850 of the inhabitants are Greek Cypriots and 487 are Turkish Cypriots. The village has three churches and one mosque.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations