Dhekélia

Dhekélia

▪ British military enclave, Cyprus
also spelled  Dekéleia 

      British military enclave in southeast Cyprus, retained as a “sovereignty base area” by the United Kingdom under the 1959 London Agreement granting independence to Cyprus. It is located northeast of Larnaca on the northern shore of Larnaca Bay, and its northern boundary formed part of the border between the Republic of Cyprus (south) and the Turkish Cypriot administered area (north) established in 1974. It has a hospital and a small airfield. The base, together with Akrotiri sovereign base to the southwest (together totaling 99 square miles [256 square km]), is used as a British training and staging area and for support of the United Nations forces on Cyprus.

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