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Map of Akrotiri, Western Sovereign Base Area, BFPO 57 Map of Dhekelia, Eastern Sovereign Base Area, BFPOs 58 & 59. Akrotiri and Dhekelia cover 3% of the land area of Cyprus, a total of 254 km 2 (98 sq mi) (split 123 km 2 (47 sq mi) (48.5%) at Akrotiri and 131 km 2 (51 sq mi) (51.5%) at Dhekelia). Akrotiri and Dhekelia have a border of 48 km (30 ...
English: Map of the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus. Date: 10 June 2010: ... 1=Map of the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus.}} |Source=Self-made in ...
Cyprus location map.svg (by TUBS). This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: Iskele in Cyprus (de-facto).svg (by TUBS ).
The Akrotiri Peninsula is a short peninsula which includes the southernmost point of the island of Cyprus. It is bounded by Episkopi Bay to the west and Akrotiri Bay to the east and has two capes to the south-west and south-east, known as Cape Zevgari and Cape Gata .
Akrotiri, along with Nicosia, assumed a very important status, as virtually the sole means for projecting British airpower into the eastern Mediterranean, outside of aircraft carriers. In 1960, independence was granted to Cyprus, with the RAF maintaining both RAF Nicosia and RAF Akrotiri as airfields, controlled by the Near East Air Force (NEAF ...
Layout map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age. Pumice, here: northern shelving coast. Eruption of 165 ka buried it all. Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek:) is the site of a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri.
This is a list of settlements in Cyprus. The English name is indicated first, followed by the Greek and Turkish names, in turn followed by any former names, including ones used in antiquity. Note that even though, prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus , Turkish names existed for some villages/towns, due to political reasons, most of the ...
Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, literally Cape, Turkish: Ağrotur) is a village within the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, which forms part of the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. It is the only village in the Western SBA with a significant non-military population.