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Xylofagou (; ) is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, situated close to the A3 motorway between Paralimni and the British military base Dhekelia.

Key facts

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Xylofagou
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File:Xylofagou.jpg
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300
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Agios Georgios church
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Cyprus
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y
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bottom
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300
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Location in Cyprus
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Country
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District
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Larnaca District
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Municipality
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Imperial
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2011
Settlement.population_total
6231
Settlement.timezone
EET
Settlement.utc_offset
+2

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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Xylofagou (; ) is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, situated close to the A3 motorway between Paralimni and the British military base Dhekelia.

== Overview == Xylofagou's name roughly translates to "wood eaters". It lies on the northern flank of a hill, on the edge of a group of several similar villages collectively known as the Kokkinochoria (Greek: Κοκκινοχώρια) which translates to "red villages" due to their abundance of nutrient-dense red soil in which vegetablesespecially the extremely popular potatoes that are eaten island-wideare grown.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xylofagou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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