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Limassol
Limassol interesting facts:
(Lemesós) Limassol city and chief port of the Republic of Cyprus. The
city lies on Akrotiri Bay, on the southern coast, it is the island's
second largest city and is also its chief tourist centre. Limassol's rise from a
humble market town between the ancient settlements of Amathus and Curium took
place at the end of the Byzantine Empire, when Richard I the Lion-Heart landed
for his Crusade campaign. Limassol has been known to traders for its sugar cane.
Now as the second largest city of north Cyprus, with a population of 135 000, it
is also the center the Cypriot wine industry.
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