Agios Georgios Pegeia
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Agios Georgios Pegeia Άγιος Γεώργιος Πέγεια Kavaklı |
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 Cyprus
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| District : | Paphos | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 34 ° 54 ' N , 32 ° 19' E | ||
| Residents : | () | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | CY-05 | ||
Agios Georgios Pegeia (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος Πέγεια, Turkish: Kavaklı ) is a place in the municipality of Pegeia on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus in the Paphos district of the Republic of Cyprus .
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location
Kavaklı / Agios Georgios Pegeia is located near Cape Drepanon on the west coast of the Republic of Cyprus, about 18 km northwest of the district capital Paphos . West of the coast lies the island of Yeronisos . About 12 km north is already on the Akamas peninsula belonging Lara Bay , 3 km north-east the Avakasschlucht . Agios Georgios Pegeia is a famous Greek Orthodox pilgrimage site .
history
The origins of Kavaklı / Agios Georgios Pegeia go back to early Christian times. The strategic location of the port suggests that the Drepanum at that time was an important intermediate port for the grain transports from Egypt to Constantinople . The place had its heyday in the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the early 6th century. The three early Christian basilicas uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Thessaloniki between 1952 and 1955 are also dated to this time. During further excavations in the late 1990s, an extensive unfortified settlement from the time of Justinian was discovered, which stretched over the crest of the headland and over the slopes.
Place of pilgrimage
The pilgrimage site of Agios Georgios Pegeia is located between the necropolis and the basilica. There is a medieval chapel and a modern church in the village . Both churches are dedicated to Saint George (Greek: Agios Georgios ).
Archaeological evidence
At the top of the headland there was a large complex, the center of which is the three-aisled “Basilica A”. In the north there is an open quadriporticus , in the west a baptistery . A smaller three-aisled basilica with a transept adjoins the baptistery to the north. The end to the west is a large, two-story residential building, which is regarded as an episkopeion (bishop's residence), and which was built in the Greco-Roman architectural style as an atrium house around a four-sided open courtyard.
To the north of "Basilica A", the excavations revealed a bathtub that was embedded in a large courtyard. Underneath was an underground grave from Roman times - accessible via a staircase - which was used as a drainage pit for the bathroom. To the northeast, next to the road leading to Pegeia, there are the remains of the small three-aisled basilica C with adjoining buildings in the north ( sacristy , oil press , well , guest house and courtyard).
The core of the settlement, in which the remains of houses, underground cisterns and a third "Basilica B" were found, lies at the foot of the southern slope. The necropolis of the settlement, whose individual graves were carved into the rock, occupies the sheer wall of the cliff, which rises on the western and northwestern coast of the ledge. On the natural plateau between the original basilicas and the necropolis is now the pilgrimage site of St. George, where pilgrims' accommodations are gathered around a small single-nave St. George chapel, built in the late 13th or early 14th century has been. The stone domed church of St. George dates from modern times.
