Famagusta

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-50
  
  
• 1573, Simon Pinargenti, Isole che son da Venetia nella Dalmatia...
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere du voyage du Levant
  
  
• 1760-s, Antonio Borg, Piani diversi di tutte le isole..., pl. 121
  
  
  See also Larnaca map:
  
  
• 1764, Joseph Roux, Receuil des principaux plans..., pl. 114
  
  

Seaport town on Famagusta Bay; was important center during Crusades; population exploded with refugees after fall of Acre; capital of Venetian rulers; went to Turks 1571; site of British internment of Jews trying to illegally enter Palestine post-WW II.

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