Frenaros

Frenaros (; ) is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located 4 miles west of Paralimni and 9 miles northwest of Ayia Napa. In 2011, it had a population of 4,298.

== Overview == Frenaros was named after the Fremenors, a group of Lusignan monks who lived in a nearby monastery. The earliest recorded reference to the village dates back to 1498, during the country's Venetian period. According to Venetian documents, the village was split into two villages whose names roughly translated to "Lower Frenaro" and "Upper Frenaro". The 1565 census marked the final instance of Frenaros being recorded as two separate villages rather than the single entity it is today. The village is named "Frinaria" on Venetian maps, first on a 1570 map by Giacomo Franco, with this name continuing on Venetian maps until 1785. The first mention of the village's name as "Frenaros" came from a 1738 map by English traveller Richard Pococke. In 1925, Swedish archeologist Einar Gjerstad uncovered evidence that the village was inhabited as early as the Neolithic period. During the early 20th century, English curator George H. E. Jeffery recorded the village's name as "Phrenaros" based on an 1888 map by Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener; this spelling is still occasionally used today despite the first modern map of the area reverting it to "Frenaros".