See also
Η Νεολιθική θέση Βρυσί στον Άγιο Επίκτητο - Archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Ayios Epiktitos-Vrysi in the Kyrenia District
Μερικά απο τα ευρήματα βρίσκωνται στο κάστρο της κερύνειας
Το λιμανάκι της Κερύνειας- Kyrenia Harbour - Cyprus
Η εκκλησία του Αγίου Γεωργίου μέσα στο Κάστρο της Κερύνειας - Agios Georgios Churche in Kyrenia Castle - Cyprus
Το καράβι της Κερύνειας (Το αρχάιο ναυάγιο) στο κάστρο της κερύνειας - The Kyrenia ship - Ancient Shipwreck in Kyrenia Castle - Cyprus
Αρχαίοι λαξευτοί τάφοι στην Αγία Ειρήνη Κερύνειας - Ancient Tombs at Agia Irini
Μερικά απο τα ευρήματα βρίσκωνται στο κάστρο της κερύνειας
Αρχαίος τάφος στο χωριό Κρηνί - Bronze Age Tomb at Kini Villages - Cyprus
Μερικά απο τα ευρήματα βρίσκωνται στο κάστρο της κερύνειας
Kyrenia Castle (Greek: Κάστρο της Κερύνειας Turkish: Girne Kalesi), at the east end of the old harbour in Kyrenia is a 16th-century castle built by the Venetians over a previous Crusader fortification. Within its walls lies a twelfth-century chapel showing reused late Roman capitals, and the Shipwreck Museum.Kyrenia has been created and been around since the 10th century BC. Excavations have revealed Greek traces that date back to the 7th century BC, but the site was developed into a city under Roman rule.
Kyrenia Castle
Research carried out at the site suggests that the Byzantines built the original castle in the 7th Century to guard the city against the new Arab maritime threat. The first historical reference to the castle occurs in 1191, when King Richard the Lionheart of England captured it on his way to the Third Crusade. He did so by defeating Isaac Comnenus, an upstart local governor who had proclaimed himself emperor.
After a short period, Richard sold the island to the Knights Templar, and then to his cousin Guy de Lusignan, the former king of Jerusalem. This began the 300 years of the Frankish Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus (1192–1489). Initially the castle was quite small. John d'Ibelin enlarged it between 1208 and 1211. The Castle's main function was military and the improvements consisted of a new entrance, square and horseshoe-shaped towers, embrasures for archers, and dungeons.
The castle was subjected to several sieges. A Genoese attack in 1373 almost destroyed the castle, and the longest amongst the sieges, in the 15th century, lasted nearly four years and reduced the unfortunate occupants to eating mice and rats. By 1489 the Venetians had taken control of Cyprus and in 1540 they enlarged the castle, giving it its present-day appearance. The chief changes, such as the addition of thick walls and embrasures for cannons, were adaptations to changes in warfare in the form of gunpowder artillery. The Venetians also installed gun ports at three levels so that they could direct cannon fire against attackers from the land. Inside the castle, they built huge long ramps so as to be able to drag artillery up on the walls. When the work on the castle was finished, its walls also encompassed the small church of St. George, which the Byzantines may have built in the 11th or 12th century.Kyrenia Castle's courtyard
In 1570, Kyrenia surrendered to the Ottomans. The Ottomans too made changes to the castle, but the British removed these during their occupation. The castle contains the tomb of the Ottoman Admiral Sadik Pasha. The British used the castle as a police barracks and training school. They also used the castle as a prison for members of the Greek Cypriot EOKA organization.
The Kyrenia Department of Antiquities took over custodianship of the castle in 1950, though it reverted to British control during the EOKA turmoil. The Department regained control in 1959 and since 1960 the castle has been open to the public. However, during the period from 1963 to 1967 the Cypriot National Guard used the castle as a military headquarters. Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in 1974 the Girne Department of Antiquities and Museums took over responsibility for the castle's preservation and use. The Department is keeping icons that were collected from churches in the Kyrenia area pre-1974 and has stored them in the castle's locked rooms for safekeeping. Some of these are now on display in the Archangel Michael Church.
The moat on the landward side of the castle was full of water prior to the 14th Century AD and served as a harbour to the castle. One enters the Castle through its north-west entrance, which opens on a bridge spanning the moat. From the first gate, lying to the north west of the fortified wall that the Venetians built, one comes to a vaulted corridor that leads to the entrance of the Lusignan castle. A passage to the left of the corridor gives entry to the cruciform Church of St. George. The dome of this church rests on marble columns with Corinthian capitals that were salvaged from an older building elsewhere and placed here.
The tomb in the entrance corridor of the Lusignan castle belongs to the Ottoman Admiral Sadik Pasha who conquered Kyrenia in 1570. The corridor then leads to the castle's large inner courtyard, which is lined with guardrooms, stables and living quarters. The arched rooms (royal guard rooms, prison etc.) to the north and east of the yard belong to the Lusignan Period. The Royal quarters to the west of the yard, as well as the big and arched windows of the little Latin Temple also date back to the Lusignan Period. On the southern part of the yard there are fortifications and remains belonging to the Byzantine Period. Ramps lead to the defences on the upper sections of the walls. One can climb steps to the Lusignan royal apartments and a small chapel. The depths of Kyrenia Castle contain dungeons, storage rooms and the powder magazines. Off the courtyard, there is a room displaying the finds from various archaeological sites such as the Akdeniz village tomb, the neolithic settlement at Vrysi, and the Kirni Bronze Age tomb. There is also a small souvenir shop and simple cafe at the northern end of the courtyard.
One of the rooms leading off the courtyard contains the Shipwreck Museum, which exhibits the remains of a Greek merchant ship from the 4th century BC, one of the oldest vessels ever to be recovered, together with its cargo. In 1965, Andreas Kariolou, a Greek-Cypriot diver, discovered the vessel, laden with millstones and amphorae of wine from Kos and Rhodes. The vessel was sailing to Cyprus when a storm wrecked it outside Kyrenia harbour. In 1967 he showed the wreck to archeologists. A team, under Michael Katsev of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, then studied the wreck from 1969 to 1974. The vessel was approximately already 80 years old at the time it sank. Today, the 47-foot-long hull (14 m), made of Aleppo pine sheathed in lead, is preserved in a specially controlled environment in the Museum, together with its amphorae.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Το Κάστρο της Κερύνειας είναι κάστρο που βρίσκεται στο λιμάνι της Κερύνειας της Κύπρου.
Χτίστηκε αρχικά από τους Ρωμαίους και τον 7ο αιώνα ανακατασκευάστηκε από τους Βυζαντινούς στη προσπάθεια τους να προστατεύσουν την πόλη από τις αραβικές επιδρομές. Ανακαινίστηκε τον 11ο αιώνα για να ανακαινιστεί πάλι από τους Λουζιτανούς ηγεμόνες της Κύπρου. Τον 13ο αιώνα μέσα στο κάστρο χτίστηκαν βασιλικά διαμερίσματα τα οποία γκρεμίστηκαν αργότερα από τους Ενετούς. Οι Ενετοί ανακαίνισαν εκ νέου το κάστρο, ισχυροποιώντας τα τείχη του και κατασκευάζοντας νέους πύργους. Το 1570 πέρασε στην κατοχή των Οθωμανών και έκτοτε χρησιμοποιήθηκε ως φυλακή από τους Οθωμανούς και αργότερα από τους Βρετανούς.
Το 1955 από το κάστρο δραπέτευσαν 16 μέλη της ΕΟΚΑ χρησιμοποιώντας σεντόνια για να κατέβουν από τις επάλξεις. Μετά το 1960 το κάστρο χρησιμοποιήθηκε για πολιτιστικές εκδηλώσεις. Το 1974 κατά την Τουρκική εισβολή στο κάστρο έγινε μάχη μεταξύ μικρής ναυτικής μονάδας Κυπρίων και των Τούρκων.
Σε αίθουσα του κάστρου βρίσκεται το Πλοίο της Κερύνειας, αρχαίο σκαρί πλοίου του 4ου αιώνα π.Χ., που έχει βρεθεί στη θάλασσα, ανελκύθηκε και συναρμολογήθηκε.
Από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια
Photos 3/4/2016 by George Konstantinou
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