Kyrenia Mountains

Kyrenia Mountains

▪ mountains, Cyprus
      mountain range in northern Cyprus extending east to west for about 100 miles (160 km) from Cape Andreas, on the Karpas Peninsula, to Cape Kormakiti. Rising from the coast a short distance inland, the range flanks a narrow coastal plain and reaches a maximum height of 3,360 feet (1,024 m) at Mount Kyparissovouno, in the western region, ending in low hills at the tip of Cape Andreas in the east. West of Melounda, the range is known as the Pentadaktylos (“Five Fingers”), from the fingered peak that is one of its main features. The first area extensively settled by mainland Turks after the Turkish intervention in Cyprus in 1974 stretches from the eastern part of Ayios Amvrosios to the Karpass Peninsula and across the Pentadaktylos mountains. The mountains are composed of a narrow fold of limestone with occasional deposits of marble.

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