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Key facts
- Type
- Settlement
- Location
- Famagusta District , Cyprus
- Website
- Virtual Tour of Salamis
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- City-kingdom of Cyprus
- Country
- Cyprus
- Located in
- Famagusta District
- Image
- Salamis.jpg
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- Commons category
- Salamis (Cyprus)
- Commons gallery
- Salamis, Cyprus
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Cyprus
- inception
- 1100-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0117-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Salamis (Ancient Greek: Σαλαμίς; Greek: Σαλαμίνα; Turkish: Salamis) was an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of modern Famagusta. According to tradition, the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, king of the Greek island of Salamis, who could not return home after the Trojan War because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salamis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.