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4 unusual facts about Pentadaktylos


Armenian religion in Cyprus

Of great importance is Saint Makarios’ Սուրբ Մակար (Sourp Magar) monastery Մակարավանք (Magaravank), also known as Αρμενομονάστηρο (Greek), Ermeni Manastırı (Turkish) and Armenian Monastery (English), located within Plataniotissa forest near Turkish-occupied Halevga, on the Pentadhaktylos mountain range - at a height of 530 m.

Armenians in Cyprus

By 1425, the renowned Magaravank – originally the Coptic monastery of Saint Makarios near Halevga (Pentadhaktylos region) – came under Armenian possession, as did sometime before 1504 the Benedictine/Carthusian nunnery of Notre Dame de Tyre or Tortosa (Sourp Asdvadzadzin) in walled Nicosia; many of its nuns had been of Armenian origin (such as princess Fimie, daughter of the Armenian King Hayton II).

Five Finger Mountain

Pentadaktylos (Πενταδάκτυλος or "fivefinger") aka Beşparmak Dağları (fivefinger mountain), a mountain in Cyprus

Kastros

Further finds include stone-vessels (shallow bowls and pots) and flint tools made from local flint from the Pentadaktylos mountains.


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