Kalopsida North Cyprus

Kalopsida North Cyprus, usefull information about North Cyprus

Long ago, in 1924, Gjerstad excavated a town house with a street running beside it at Kalopsida (Turkish, Cayonii) in the Mesaoria south west of Famagusta. It lay over the remains of an earlier house. He found ten rooms grouped round a courtyard; there was perhaps another yard to the north, which he did not examine. The rooms were large, squareish with stone foundations to mud-brick walls and there were gaps where timber uprights would have stood to support the roof. In one room which had an open doorway, possibly closed by a thick curtain, there was a raised round hearth in the middle. Gjerstad saw it either as an altar, the religious centre of the house, or 'a chimney where a fire was made on cold and dark winter evenings'. It was not a kitchen; the cooking was done, he said, in the courtyard. There was a good deal of storage space and he thought of the house as belonging to a merchant. There is a suggestion that Kalopsida was the capital of eastCyprus before the great port of Enkomi grew up. At that rate, Lapithos could have been the capital of the west.

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