Kyrenia Castle (Greek: Κάστρο της Κερύνειας Turkish: Girne Kalesi), at the east end of the old harbor in Kyrenia is a sixteenth century manor worked by the Venetians over a past Crusader stronghold. Inside its dividers lies a twelfth-century church indicating reused late Roman capitals, and the Shipwreck Museum
Kyrenia has existed since the tenth century BC. Unearthings have uncovered Greek follows that go back to the seventh century BC, yet the site was produced into a city under Roman run the show.
Kyrenia Castle, see from the Old harbor
Research did at the site proposes that the Byzantines assembled the first château in the seventh Century to monitor the city against the new Arab oceanic risk. The primary verifiable reference to the manor happens in 1191, when King Richard I of England caught it on his way to the Third Crusade by crushing Isaac Comnenus, an upstart nearby senator who had declared himself sovereign.
After a brief period, Richard sold the island to the Knights Templar, and afterward to his cousin Guy de Lusignan, the previous lord of Jerusalem. This started the 300 years of the Frankish Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus (1192– 1489). At first the mansion was very little. John d'Ibelin expanded it in the vicinity of 1208 and 1211. The Castle's primary capacity was military and the changes comprised of another passageway, square and horseshoe-formed towers, embrasures for toxophilite, and prisons.
The château was subjected to a few attacks. A Genoese assault in 1373 relatively wrecked the manor, and the longest among the attacks, in the fifteenth century, kept going almost four years and diminished the sad tenants to eating mice and rats. By 1489 the Venetians had taken control of Cyprus and in 1540 they broadened the château, giving it its present-day appearance. The central changes, for example, the expansion of thick dividers and embrasures for guns, were adjustments to changes in fighting as explosive gunnery. The Venetians additionally introduced firearm ports at three levels with the goal that they could coordinate gun shoot against assailants from the land. Inside the stronghold, they fabricated immense long slopes in order to have the capacity to drag big guns up on the dividers. At the point when the work on the stronghold was done, its dividers likewise included the little church of St. George, which the Byzantines may have worked in the eleventh or twelfth century.
Kyrenia Castle's patio
In 1570, Kyrenia surrendered to the Ottomans. The Ottomans excessively rolled out improvements, making it impossible to the château, yet the British expelled these amid their occupation. The manor contains the tomb of the Ottoman Admiral Sadik Pasha. The British utilized the château as a police garisson huts and preparing school. They likewise utilized the palace as a jail for individuals from the Greek Cypriot EOKA association.
The Kyrenia Department of Antiquities assumed control custodianship of the mansion in 1950, however it returned to British control amid the EOKA turmoil. The Department recovered control in 1959 and since 1960 the mansion has been available to the general population. Be that as it may, amid the period from 1963 to 1967 the Cypriot National Guard utilized the palace as a military home office. Following the Turkish attack of Cyprus, in 1974 the Girne Department of Antiquities and Museums assumed control obligation regarding the château's protection and utilize. The Department is keeping symbols that were gathered from holy places in the Kyrenia region pre-1974 and has put away them in the stronghold's bolted spaces for supervision. Some of these are presently in plain view in the Archangel Michael Church.
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