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38-847: Coordinates : 35°01′36″N 33°57′01″E / 35.02667°N 33.95028°E / 35.02667; 33.95028 (Redirected from Ayia Thekla ) Municipality in Famagusta District, Cyprus Sotira Σωτήρα ( Greek ) Municipality [REDACTED] Agios Georgios Chortakio [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Sotira Coordinates: 35°01′36″N 33°57′01″E / 35.02667°N 33.95028°E / 35.02667; 33.95028 Country [REDACTED] Cyprus District Famagusta District Population (2011) • Total 5,474 Website www .sotira .org .cy Sotira ( Greek : Σωτήρα )
76-505: A tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!} is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this
114-460: A datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations a simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ),
152-510: A brief mention of his name. According to the oldest Life of Demetrianos, published in the 18th century, he became bishop in around 885, was captured by Arabs and taken to Egypt with many of his faithful, but by his prayers obtained the liberation of all. No longer a residential bishopric, Chytri is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see . Kythrea is a remarkable archaeological area. One outstanding statue discovered in
190-590: A municipality in exile. It shares premises with the similarly-displaced municipality of Lapithos at 37 Ammochostou Street, Nicosia. After its Greek Cypriot inhabitants were displaced in August 1974, the town was repopulated by displaced Turkish Cypriots. The main origin of the Turkish Cypriots that settled in the town is the village of Alaminos , but inhabitants of many other villages were also relocated here. There are some Turkish people that have settled in
228-608: A point on Earth's surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as
266-473: A region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using the same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because
304-411: Is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b
342-480: Is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and a longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it
380-522: Is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand
418-582: Is a small town in Cyprus , 10 km northeast of Nicosia . Kythrea is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus . Kythrea is situated near the ancient Greek city-kingdom of Chytroi , which was founded by Chytros, son of Alexander and grandson of the grandson of the Athenian King Akamas. According to one tradition, the name Kythrea derives from Chytroi (Χύτροι > *Χυτρέα > Κυθρέα). According to another tradition, it derives from
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#1732801553267456-507: Is a town in the Famagusta District of Cyprus , west of Paralimni . In 2011, it had a population of 5,474. Gallery [ edit ] [REDACTED] Aerial view of the beach and the chapel [REDACTED] St Thekla chapel [REDACTED] St Thekla chapel [REDACTED] Sotira's municipal amphitheatre [REDACTED] The beach of Ayia Thekla See also [ edit ] Onisilos Sotira ,
494-456: Is different from Wikidata Articles containing Greek-language text Coordinates on Wikidata Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS ) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms
532-456: Is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana , a location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum
570-678: Is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Kythrea Kythrea ( Greek : Κυθρέα or Κυθραία ; Turkish : Değirmenlik )
608-465: Is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of the shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for
646-536: The Council of Chalcedon (451) show that Bishop Photinus was represented there by his deacon Dionysius, and those of the Second Council of Nicaea in 767 that Bishop Spyridon attended in person. Contemporary documents are lacking concerning Demetrianus, whom Henri Grégoire described as perhaps the most obscure of the local saints of Cyprus. The medieval Leontios Machairas is the earliest writer to make even
684-481: The International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and the far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude
722-526: The 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from a prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with
760-506: The Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm a year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of
798-729: The European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from the one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on
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#1732801553267836-536: The French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with
874-681: The area is the bronze statue of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus , exhibited in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. In the Middle Ages, Kythrea hosted flourmills that belonged to the King of Cyprus , powered by its water springs. At the end of the 13th century, flour produced in the Kythrea mills provided the supply for the production of bread in the capital, Nicosia. The Kythrea municipality
912-532: The basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in the EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for
950-577: The center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of
988-649: The default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organization include the North American Datum ,
1026-490: The distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get the width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!}
1064-474: The full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used the same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding
1102-781: The length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt
1140-461: The location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires
1178-595: The longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to)
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1216-463: The melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at the Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree
1254-626: The name of the Greek Ionian island Kythera , from where millstones were transferred to Kythrea's watermills. In Delphic Theorodochoi inscription, one inscription mentions the Chytroi. The small town was watered for millennia by the Kefalovrysos spring; however, shortly after the 1974 Turkish invasion , the water stopped flowing. Other forms of the name include Chytri, Cythraia, Cythereia, Cythroi, Chytrides, Chytros and Chytria. With
1292-512: The same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In
1330-596: The spread of Christianity in Cyprus, Chytroi became a bishopric . The first bishop, whose name is known is Pappus, is mentioned in the Life of Epiphanius of Salamis as having been bishop for 58 years of the "miserable town of Chytria", and as having died a martyr at some unspecified date, which must have been under either the pagan emperors Licinius or Maximinus II , or the Arian Constantius II . The acts of
1368-602: The town as well, mostly hailing from the Mersin Province . Prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Kythrea was the home of the football club AEK Kythreas . Değirmenlik Environment and Publicity Association was founded in 2008. Değirmenlik Association of Culture and Arts is a non-governmental organization that is active in the town, and it annually organizes the Festival of Culture and Arts since 2009. The members of
1406-3037: The town's football club References [ edit ] ^ "Population - Place of Residence, 2011" . Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT) . 17 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. v t e [REDACTED] Municipalities of Cyprus Nicosia District Aglandjia Agios Dometios Dali Engomi Kythrea Lakatamia Latsia - Geri Morphou Nicosia Strovolos Tseri Limassol District Agios Athanasios Germasogeia Kato Polemidia Limassol Mesa Geitonia Ypsonas Larnaca District Aradippou Athienou Dromolaxia – Meneou Larnaca Livadia Pano Lefkara Famagusta District Ayia Napa Akanthou Deryneia Famagusta Lefkoniko Lysi Paralimni Sotira Paphos District Geroskipou Paphos Pegeia Polis Chrysochous Kyrenia District Karavas Kyrenia Lapithos v t e Famagusta District Municipalities Akanthou Ayia Napa Deryneia Famagusta Lefkoniko Lysi Paralimni Sotira [REDACTED] Communities Acheritou Achna Afania Agia Trias Agios Andronikos (Topçuköy) Agios Andronikos Agios Chariton Agios Efstathios Agios Georgios Agios Iakovos Agios Ilias Agios Nikolaos Agios Sergios Agios Symeon Agios Theodoros Aloda Angastina Ardana Arnadi Artemi Assia Avgolida Avgorou Balalan Bogazi Chatos Davlos Enkomi Eptakomi Flamoudi Frenaros Gaidouras Galateia Galinoporni Gastria Genagra Gerani Goufes Gypsou Kalopsida Knodara Koilanemos Koma tou Gialou Komi Kebir Kontea Kornokipos Koroveia Kouklia Krideia Lapathos Leonarisso Limnia Liopetri Livadia Lythrangomi Makrasyka Mandres Maratha Marathovounos Melanagra Melounta Milia Monarga Mousoulita Neta Ovgoros Patriki Peristerona Perivolia Pigi Platani Prastio Psyllatos Pyrga Rizokarpaso Santalaris Sinta Spathariko Strongylos Stylloi Sygkrasi Tavros Trikomo Trypimeni Vasili Vathylakas Vatili Vitsada Vokolida Yialousa Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sotira,_Famagusta&oldid=1252690905 " Category : Municipalities in Famagusta District Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description
1444-640: Was established in 1915. The town is administered by the Turkish Cypriot Municipality of Değirmenlik founded in 1975. The current mayor is Ali Karavezirler from the Republican Turkish Party (CTP). He was elected to the post in 2018, garnering 54.1% of the votes. He replaced Osman Işısal, the mayor elected in 2014 from the same party. Displaced inhabitants of Kythrea, now located in Nicosia and elsewhere, maintain
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