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	Mesaoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mesaoria plain is bounded on the east and west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the south by the Troodos mountains and on the north by the Kyrenia mountains.
		The word "Mesaoria" (sometimes spelled "Mesarya"), means "between the mountains" in Greek.
		Due to deforestation, much of the Mesaoria is covered with "Kafkalla", which is a local term referring to calcium carbonate that has been compacted into a hardpan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mesaoria (456 words)

	Geography of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The physical setting for life on the island is dominated by the mountain masses and the central plain they encompass, the Mesaoria.
		The Mesaoria is the agricultural heartland of the island, but its productiveness for wheat and barley depends very much on winter rainfall; other crops are grown under irrigation.
		On the Mesaoria in the eastern lowland, for example, there is bright sunshine 75 percent of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Cyprus (1960 words)

	Information for Tourists
		The Mesaoria Plain is at the centre of the island.
		The Mesaoria is the heart of the TRNC's agricultural economy, being home to cereals, fruits of all kinds and pasture land.
		To Nicosia's west, the Mesaoria plain ends in a jumble of cliffs and rocky coves where the Troodos Mountains' foothills meet the sea.
	hugheverett.digitalzones.com /touristinfo_english.htm (3181 words)

	Cyprus - MSN Encarta
		In the far northeast of Cyprus, the island narrows abruptly to form the long, slender Karpas Peninsula, which reaches east toward the coast of Syria.
		Much of central Cyprus is a flat, treeless plain called the Mesaoria, meaning “between the mountains” in Greek.
		A number of watercourses bring runoff from snow in the mountains down to the Mesaoria plain in spring, but they are generally dry for most of the year.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578820/Cyprus.html (820 words)

	North Cyprus: Weather
		The chief rain-bearing air currents reach the island from the south-west, so that precipitation and atmospheric humidity is at its greatest on the western and south-western sides of the Southern Range.
		Eastwards, precipition and humidity are reduced by the partial rain-shadow effect of the Southern Range, a similar effect is also caused by the Northern Range which cut off the humidity associated with proximity to the sea from much of the northern Mesaoria Plain.
		Eastwards of the Northern Range, towards the bays of the Karpaz Peninsula, where the land narrows and the effect of sea influence increases accordingly, humidity increases progressively towards the end of the peninsula.
	www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/main/weather/index.html (444 words)

	CYPRUSIVE - North Cyprus Web Guide - Mesaoria (Mesarya) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Mesaoria Plain extending between the Northern Range and the Southern Range right across the island from Guzelyurt, through Nicosia to Famagusta is 20 km long, 20 to 40 km wide, covering an area of 962 sq.
		The Mesaoria Plain is an extensive alluvial area, mainly flat and potentially fertile.
		The Mesaoria Plain, is mainly devoted, especially in its central and eastern parts, to double- harvest crops of wheat and barely essential to the
	www.cyprusive.com /?CID=234 (612 words)

	Natural Resources
		Practically all our natural water is derived from precipitation, which we shall call rain water even though it is partially in the form of snow in the mountains and, to a much lesser extent, cloud, mist and dew.
		A popular belief holds that the wells in the Mesaoria are fed from water which comes from the Turkish Taurus mountains, but there is no scientific confirmation of this idea, which is geologically highly improbable.
		The most important one covers much of the Eastern half of the Mesaoria, north-west of Famagusta, as far as south-west of Lefkosia, but there are other ones round Morphou and Larnaka, the latter stretching along the littoral to Zygi.
	www.cypenv.org /cyprus_water/files/natres.htm (2909 words)

	Kantara Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kantara Castle is the easternmost of the castles situated on the Kyrenia mountain range in North Cyprus.
		Laying at 630 metres above sea level it is well positioned to control the entrances to Karpass Peninsula and Mesaoria plain.
		It is thought to be built in the 10th century as a lookout post by the Byzantines against the raiding Arabs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kantara_Castle (145 words)

	Tourist Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The third largest island in the Mediterranean, Cyprus stretches 150 miles (240 km) from the west coast to its easternmost tip and 60 miles (96 km) from north to south.
		There are six major towns Nicosia, the capital situated inland in the middle of the Mesaoria plain, and the 5 coastal towns of Limassol, Larnaka, Pafos, Kyrenia and Famagusta.
		The latter two, in the north and east respectively, have been under Turkish occupation since 1974 and are inaccessible to visitors.
	www.namasthenri.com /cyprus/tourist.html (181 words)

	CYPRUS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY - Mineral Wealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The tour of the Museum starts in the first hall which presents characteristic sedimentary and volcanic rocks from Troodos, from the Mesaoria plain and elsewhere.
		The Central Plain (Mesaoria), which until about 120 thousand years ago was a shallow sea, is formed chiefly of clay, marls and testaceous limestone dated from 0,5 million to 5 million years, while in the areas around Troodos we frequently come across chalk, limestone and gypsum.
		In some places of Mesaoria, especially in the region close to Nicosia, we come across fossilised shells and other marine life varieties.
	www.natmuseum.org.cy /enmin.html (274 words)

	Kyrenia mountain range peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These mountains are a series of sedimentary formations from the Permian to the Middle Miocene pushed up by a collision of the African and Eurasian Plate tectonics.
		Though only half the height of the Troodos Mountains, the Kyrenia mountains are very rugged and rise abruptly from the Mesaoria plain making them very spectacular.
		The placement of the mountains near the sea made them desirable locations for watch towers and castles overlooking the north Cyprus coast as well as the central plain.
	kyrenia.mountain.range.en.peee.org (233 words)

	AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main features of the island's topography include two mountain ranges, the Kyrenia in the north, which rises to 1 024 metres, and the Troodos in the centre, rising to 1 951 metres.
		The main groundwater aquifers are the Western Mesaoria (Morphou), Kokkinochoria (South-eastern and Eastern Mesaoria) and the Akrotiri.
		At present, almost all the renewable water resources in Cyprus are utilized and, in a number of areas, groundwater is rapidly depleting with sea water intrusion occurring in the main coastal aquifers of Morphou (Western Mesaoria), Famagusta and Kokkinochoria (Eastern Mesaoria) and Akrotiri.
	www.fao.org /ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/cyprus/index.stm (3008 words)

	Statement
		The village of Lefkonico is situated in the north-eastern part of the Mesaoria plain, on the island of Cyprus.
		This plain is to be found between the mountain ranges of Troodos [to the south] and Kyrenia [to the north].
		The village stretches right up to the “feet” of the Pendadactylos (Five-finger) mountain which is part of the Kyrenia mountain range and reaches as far down, as the centre of the plain in the south.
	www.lefkonico.com /statement.htm (1326 words)

	Climate and Weather in Cyprus
		The least rainfall occurs in the Mesaoria, with 300-400 millimetres a year.
		Relative humidity of the air is between 60% and 80% in winter and between 40% and 60% in summer with even lower values during midday.
		On the Mesaoria in the eastern lowland, for example, there is bright sunshine 75% of the time.
	www.turkishcyprus.com /about-trnc-climate.html (357 words)

	Cyprus \| General Info \| Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the complex of Troodos constituted an island during the Lower Miocene era 25 million years ago, the Mesaoria plain, to the north and the Pentadactylos or Kyrenia range, further north, remained under the sea.
		Later to the end of Miocene era, Pentadactylos begun rising above the sea, while the Mesaoria plain remained under the sea to be shown above the sea much later in Pleistocene era.
		Sediments from the Troodos and the Kyrenia ranges have been transported and gathered into the plain by streams in recent geological times and they represent the main consistence of the Mesaoria.
	www.cyprus.com /cyprus-general-info-geography-landscape.php (824 words)

	History o fNicosia
		Greater Nicosia is probably the only area in Cyprus that can boast continuous habitation since the beginning of the Bronze Age 2500 years BC, when the first inhabitants settled in the fertile plain of Mesaoria.
		After the Arab raids in the 6th century AD and the pillage that ensued in the coastal cities, people moved to the center of the island in the Mesaoria plain and the mountainous areas.
		Nicosia had probably become the center of administration and the island's capital in either the 9th or the 10th century, had acquired a castle and was the seat of the Byzantine governor of Cyprus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Cyprus/History/HistoryOfNicosia.html (3361 words)

	Land and Resources - Cyprus - Middle East: cyprus island, mount olympus, island range, north south, highest peak
		Much of the land is a flat, treeless plain located in the interior and called the Mesaoria, meaning “between the mountains” in Greek; it extends from the western to the eastern coasts and is bordered on the north and south by mountain ranges.
		The northern range, known as the Kyrenia Range, is notable for its rocky, unbroken character.
		A number of watercourses bring the overflow from the winter rains down to the Mesaoria plain in spring but are dry for most of the year.
	www.countriesquest.com /middle_east/cyprus/land_and_resources.htm (199 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This name is assumed to have been taken to reflect the fact that the village used to be the only road leading inland to the Mesaoria plain from the coastal areas.
		It is assumed that the first inhabitants were living near the coast.
		The road still looks like a gate since it passes through the hills that overlook it from the north, east and wast and upon coming on top you really enter the plain of Mesaoria in an abrupt and spectacular way.
	www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy /~ank/Pyla/history.html (300 words)

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		Four major physical regions characterize Cyprus: the Kyrenia Mountains in the north,the Troodos Mountains in the south, the Mesaoria Plain in between, and the coastal plains that surround almost the entire country.
		The island's highest point, Mount Olympus, is in the Troodos range and reaches a height of 6,406 feet (1,953 meters).
		It was mined there as early as 2500 BC.) The Mesaoria is the island's agricultural area, but some crops must be irrigated.
	myweb.cytanet.com.cy /steliosg/CyprusProblem.html (791 words)

	School Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Kyrenia Range is a narrow, arcuate lineament several hundred kilometres long and encompasses both Northern Cyprus and its offshore extension.
		To the south, the Mesaoria Basin contains an excellent sedimentary succession from Miocene — Recent and, with study, can greatly enhance our understanding of the tectonic development in the area.
		By what processes were the Mesaoria Basin to the south of the Kyrenia range in-filled and where did the sediment come from?
	www.geos.ed.ac.uk /glg/events/seminarDetails?ID=478 (326 words)

	Cyprus: The Forest Fire Situation in Cyprus (IFFN No. 23 - December 2000)
		The central core of the two mountain ranges is characterized by steep slopes, vertical cliffs, deep gorges, narrow streams, and long mountain ridges, while their foothills are characterized by rounded, trapezoid or conical hills, usually with steep lateral slopes.
		The Mesaoria plain is situated between the two mountain ranges and it is characterized by extensive flat areas and trapezoid or conical hills, usually with steep lateral slopes.
		The climate is Mediterranean, characterized by hot dry summers from mid-May to mid-September and rainy, rather changeable, winters from November to mid-March, which are separated by short autumn and spring seasons of rapid change in weather conditions.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /iffn/country/cy/cy_3.htm (1901 words)

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		On the same day, the same Turkish military aircraft entered again the FIR of Nicosia, flying over the occupied area of Mesaoria, before landing at the illegal airport of Lefkoniko, from where it departed on the same day, towards the FIR of Ankara;
		On 15 November 2004, 13 NF-5 Turkish military aircraft coming in two formations (1X5 and 1X8) and 2 Cougar Turkish military aircraft, carried out a total of three violations of the international air traffic regulations and the national airspace of the
		On the same day, the same Turkish military aircraft entered again the FIR of Nicosia, flying over the occupied area of Mesaoria, before landing at the illegal airport of Lefkoniko, from where it departed again, in a reverse direction;
	www.kypros.org /UN/s98004.htm (1991 words)

	The Wind of Death
		Today there are no more than a few survivors of the massacre that probably was carried out by Greek Cypriot extremists on August 16, 1974.
		On this day the wind of death blew over the Mesaoria plains, when 196 men, women, children — old as well as young — were taken out from the villages
		The pit that once was the villagers' mass grave is still preserved, close to the entrance road to the villages.
	www.arvendalstudios.com /cyprus/html/ncyp35.html (107 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Cyprus - Climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Plains along the northern coast and in the Karpas Peninsula area average 400 to 450 millimeters of annual rainfall.
		Earthquakes, usually not destructive, occur from time to time.
		Because of the scorching heat of the lowlands, some of the villages in the Troodos have developed as resort areas, with summer as well as winter seasons.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/cyprus/18.php (403 words)

	Cyprus PIO: Turkish Press and Other Media, 04-06-24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to local Turkish Cypriot daily VATAN newspaper (24.06.´04), Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktas had a meeting yesterday with the Turkish State Minister and deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener who arrived in the occupied area to sign the so-called "Loan Protocol" between the pseudo-state and Turkey.
		During the meeting Denktas referred to Turkey's assistance extended to the occupied area and pointed out that unless water is supplied from Turkey through under-water pipes the Mesaoria Plain will not be green.
		After the meeting Sener told reporters that he is very happy to be in the occupied area again and added that after 24 April this is his second visit to the occupied area, the first being for the opening of the occupied Tymbou airport.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/tcpr/2004/04-06-24.tcpr.html (2271 words)

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		On 2 June 2004, one C-130 Turkish military aircraft entered the FIR of Nicosia, violating international air traffic regulations, flying over the occupied area of Mesaoria, before landing at the illegal airport of Tymbou, from where it departed on the same day in a reverse direction.
		One of the CN-235 Turkish military aircraft departed on the same day in a reverse direction.
		, flying over the occupied areas of Kyrenia and Mesaoria, before landing at the same airport.
	www.kypros.org /UN/s59704.htm (2507 words)

	Genesis and Some Properties of Soils Formed on Miocene Gypsum in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
		In this research, three soil profiles developed on Miocene aged gypsum parent material in the Mesaoria plain has been studied in order to investigate their important properties and formation.
		The soil samples were obtained from each profile on horizon basis.
		3) Mesaoria plain which usually consists of Neogen oldest Kuaterner deposits are situated between Troodos and Girne Mountains and extend from western Güzelyurt to eastern Gazimagusa gulf.
	www.toprak.org.tr /isd/can_56.htm (1356 words)

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	www.wonw.com /english/mesaoria.php (183 words)

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