Karpasia (town)

Karpasia, Latinized as Carpasia, and also known as Karpasion (sometimes mistaken for Karpathos), is said to have been founded by the Phoenician King Pygmalion of Tyre near Cape Sarpedon, now Cape St. Andreas, at the extreme end of the Karpass Peninsula on the north-east shore of Cyprus, a short distance north of the modern town of Rizokarpaso.

Karpasia (town)

Karpasia, Latinized as Carpasia, and also known as Karpasion (sometimes mistaken for Karpathos), is said to have been founded by the Phoenician King Pygmalion of Tyre near Cape Sarpedon, now Cape St. Andreas, at the extreme end of the Karpass Peninsula on the north-east shore of Cyprus, a short distance north of the modern town of Rizokarpaso.