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Sia or Sha is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. It is located 4 km south of Alampra.
Saint John the Cave-Dweller.
Around 1100 A.D. when 300 Alemanni monks arrived in Cyprus to teach Christianity.
Among them were three well-known saints: Therapon, Eutychios, and Ioannis, who would later be called the Spileotis.
The three monks chose an area 3 kilometers north of the village of Sia and just outside the Roman settlement of Pamboulia to build their monasteries.
Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.
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Potamia is a community of the Nicosia District located just 22 km from the capital city. It is a mixed community where Greek and Turkish Cypriots live harmonically.
Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.
Halfway along the road leading from the village of Sia to Mathiatis, on the left, there is an earthen road which leads to a small hill where the ruins of an ancient byzantine chapel dedicated to Agios Eftychios stand.
Its architecture and thick ancient walls reveal that during its glory days the church was an imposing building. It also resembles the ruined church of Saint Ilarionas Neos at the fortress of Agios Ilarionas in Pentadaktylos. Its architecture and mainly the mixture of the materials used by the builders of these two churches are almost identical, except for the fact that the church of Saint Eftychios is smaller.
Saint Eftychios, as this is mentioned by chronicler Archimandrite Kyprianos in the “Chronological History of the Island of Cyprus” (1788), was one of the “foreign Saints who settled on the Island” (one of the 300 Alamans who found refuge in Cyprus after being persecuted by the Palestinians in the 11th century A.D.) and chose to perform his ascetic duties on the borders of Lythrodontas, along with his fellow anchorites Josef, Thelthan, Frasin and John.
Saint Eftychios performed his ascetic duties in Mathiatis and along with other monks they built a small monastery dedicated to Agios Eftychios. When the Turks occupied Cyprus in 1571 A.D., they killed the monks, ruined their cells and left the chapel of Agios Eftychios deserted.
Mathiatis is a village located in the Nicosia District of Cyprus.
Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.
Sia or Sha is a village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. It is located 4 km south of Alampra.
Saint John the Cave-Dweller.
Around 1100 A.D. when 300 Alemanni monks arrived in Cyprus to teach Christianity.
Among them were three well-known saints: Therapon, Eutychios, and Ioannis, who would later be called the Spileotis.
The three monks chose an area 3 kilometers north of the village of Sia and just outside the Roman settlement of Pamboulia to build their monasteries.
Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.