Kition
Sign in to saveKition (Ancient Greek: , ; Latin: ; Egyptian: ; Phoenician: , , or , ;) was an ancient Phoenician and Greek city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca), one of the ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus.
Key facts
- Country.native_name
- or
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Kition
- Country.common_name
- Kition
- Country.era
- Classical Antiquity
- Country.government_type
- Petty kingdom
- Country.year_start
- 12th century BC
- Country.year_end
- 342 AD
- Country.image_map
- Larnaka map.PNG
- Country.image_map_caption
- Location of Kition
- Country.common_languages
- Greek and Phoenician
- Country.religion
- Ancient Greek religion/Ancient Canaanite religion
- Country.currency
- Stater, obol
- Country.capital
- Kition
- Country.today
- Cyprus
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- The Kition archaeological sites
- Kathari site (a.k.a. Area II)
- Bamboula site
- Other archaeological sites at Kition
- The Mnemata Site
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Archaeological reports
- Discussions
- External links
Kition (Ancient Greek: , ; Latin: ; Egyptian: ; Phoenician: , , or , ;) was an ancient Phoenician and Greek city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca), one of the ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus.
==Name== The name of the city comes from the Phoenician (, pronounced Kitiya). This name was borrowed into Ancient Greek as () and thence into Latin as .