Diorios

Diorios or Dhiorios (, ) is a village in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus, 2 km west of Myrtou. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Diorios is the second largest administrative area in the district of Kyrenia. Its administrative limits reach to the southern Nicosia-Kyrenia border. Most of the administrative area of the village is covered by dense pine forest, while in other areas sparsely vegetated land allows for the cultivation of cereals and carob and olive trees. The surrounding forest occupies an area of 8,400 acres, or 1,124.4 hectares. The village itself covers an area of 27,587 acres, or 36.9 square miles.

==Etymology== Various explanations for the name Diorios exist. One of them claims that the name was taken from the two kingdoms that existed in the region. Another claims that it is so called because it faces two hills (mountains). A third version notes that it owes its name from two streams that flowed to the ground, while a fourth says it was so named because it was, in ancient times and mythology, the hill of the father of the Olympian Gods, Zeus.