Kyrenia mountain range

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The Pentadaktylos Πενταδάκτυλος Greek, Turkish Beşparmak or Beşparmaklar, even Kyrenia Mountains and Kyrenia Mountains (after the town of Kyrenia ), is a mountain range in the north of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The name means in both languages ​​"five fingers " and refers to the striking mountain peaks.

The mountain consists of limestone and falls in the north relatively steeply into the sea. It consists of sediments that were deposited between the Permian and the Middle Miocene and placed vertically by the collision of the African plate and the Eurasian plate. The highest mountain is 1,024 m of Kyparissovouno ( Selvili Tepe ).

The Pentadaktylos runs north-east from the narrow peninsula Karpas and to the west of the Cape Kormakitis.

Several castles and monasteries from the Byzantine and Frankish period (from about 1200 to the French noble family of Lusignan ) use the rugged location and the wide view, including the castles of St. Hilarion, Kantara and Buffavento and the Gothic Bellapais Abbey of the Norbertine Order.

The Pentadaktylos ( Beşparmaklar )