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Kition was first systematically excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Archaeological Expedition from October 1929 (under the direction of Einar Gjerstad) until April 1930. Kition. The cult room.
Kition was an ancient Mycenaean city, a kingdom of Cyprus in the place of today's Larnaka. There were prehistoric settlements, which later accepted Achaean settlers. The city dates back to the 12th century BC in Egyptian inscriptions, but later in the Bible.
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Kition, on the southeast coast of the island, was the capital of a Cypriot-Phoenician kingdom in the 1 st millennium BCE. Dating from the 13 th century BCE, its life span has allowed archaeologists to study, throughout Antiquity, archaeological evidence for periods of crisis, forms of urban resilience and means of contact between different peoples.
In 312BC, Kition was originally occupied and then destroyed by Ptolemy 1st Soter (the Egyptian Pharaoh). In spite of this, habitation continued into Christian times. Kition was well known for its harbour in antiquity, from which many agricultural products were exported to the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and the Aegean.
- Kition, Leoforos Archiepiskopou Kyprianou
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The political and economic penetration of the Phoenicians of Kition into Cyprus starting with the Persian rule on the island at the end of the 6th c. B.C. puts forward the existence of a Phoenician kingdom, with a strong and continuous ethnic dynasty during the 5th c. B.C., which is accompanied by the diffusion of Phoenician dynasties in more ...
HISTORY. Kition was an ancient Phoenician city, a kingdom of Cyprus in whose place today is the city of Larnaca. In the wider area there were prehistoric settlements which later during the 14th century BC. accepted Greek settlers. Larnaca is the oldest city in Cyprus.
Its origins are linked to four important persons: the Apostles Paul, Barnabas and Mark, who came to the island at the beginning of their first mission-ary journey converting the people of...
