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"Across the base of the Carpass the mountains stretch
like a wall, terminating in the huge buttress of Mount
Yioudhi, which bars all ingress to the narrow strip—the
garden of Cyprus—which extends for fifty miles between
mountains and sea, past Aphrodisium, Macaria, Kerynia
and Lapethus to Cape Crommyon and the bay of Soli. Above
Eptakomi, pleasantest and most hospitable of Carpass
villages, a narrow defile leads into this favoured
land,".
He continues "I arrived at Galounia fully it with the
conviction that, while it might be Αχαιών Ακτή, the
larger city (Aphrodisium) was to be found further west.
Its vicinity to the pass of Eptakomi, the shortest and
easiest route to Salamis from the north coast, makes it
very natural that it should have been selected by the
logographers as the landing-place of Teucer."
So here in his final words we hear the learned view that
Teucer may well have crossed the hills above Eptakomi on
his way to found Salamis.
20th Century References.
Eptakomi continues to be mentioned in maps, news-press
and official reports throughout the twentieth century up
to the present time, illustrating its wonder as one of
the finest villages of the Karpas. |
