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Páfos (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 46 36 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.7768 decimal degrees |
| Long: 032 25 28 E degrees minutes |
Long: 32.4245 decimal degrees |
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Note: Modern town on an ancient site, called Nea Paphos (New Paphos). It has been inhabited since the Neolithic period, it was a center of the cult of Aphrodite and of pre-Hellenic fertility deities. It is located 22 km north of another site called Paphos (Paleopaphos, or Old Paphos), now at the site of modern village of Kouklia. |
Names: |
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| Páfos (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Páfos (C,V)
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| Paphos (C,V,English-P,U)
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| Néa Páfos (C,V)
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| Nea Paphos (C,V)
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| Πάφος (C,V,Greek,U)
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| Baf (C,V,Turkish,U)
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| Gazibaf (C,V,Turkish,U)
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| Néa Páfos (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Páfos (national district) (P) |
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Páfos (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| town (C) |
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| ancient site (C) |
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| Neolithic (H) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Páfos .......... (national district) |
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(World, Asia, Kypriakí Dimokratía) [7000840] |
| distinguished from .... |
Kouklia .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Kypriakí Dimokratía, Páfos) [7002341] |
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