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Famagusta is a city on the east coast of Cyprusand is capital of
the Famagusta District. It is currently under the control of the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus and the capital of its Gazimağusa District,
whilst the international community considers it to be under
Turkish military occupation since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in
1974 when the predominant Greek population of the city fled their
homes. It is located east of Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour
of the island. Home to the Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta has a walled city popular with
tourists and a vibrant nightlife. The Turkish army restricts all access to the once-thriving quarter of Varosha,
which today remains uninhabited and surrounded with a barbed wire.
Famagusta is noted to be a small fishing villiage
Famagusta has a Castle, called the “Othello Castle”
This castle is, aside from the Venetian walls, a second defensive fort, built by the de Lusignans in the 13 th
Century. It was reinforced and expanded in the beginning of the 16 th century by the Venetians. According to
Legend, this is where Cristoforo Moro, a high Venetian official in Cyprus during the years 1506-08, killed his
beautiiiil but unfaithful wife Desdemona. The case inspired Shakespeare to write his play Othello, hence the
present name of the castle.
Famagusta is a city on the east coast of Cyprus and is capital of the Famagusta District. It is located in a bay
between Capes Greco and Eloea, east of Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour in the island. Since the 1974
Turkish invasion the city has resided in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The old tourist
quarter of Varosha is abandoned pending a settlement of the Cyprus dispute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famagusta
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