Armou ( el, (η) Άρμου) is a village in the

Paphos District Paphos District ( el, Επαρχία Πάφου, tr, Baf kazası) is one of the six districts of Cyprus and it is situated in the western part of Cyprus. Its main town and Capital (political), capital is Paphos. The entire district is controlle ...

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, located south-east of

Mesogi Mesogi ( gr, Μεσόγη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 5 km north of Paphos Paphos ( el, Πάφος ; tr, Baf) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two ...

. It has a panoramic view of

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. Armou is located 363m above sea level. The area has been inhabited since pre-Christian times, according to the findings now exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Paphos. The name of the community emerged from its first settler called Armos, while another version speaks of the “armos (joint in Greek)“ because of its location (like a joint joining the mountain and the valley). A third version refers to the “arma (chariot in Greek)” of the goddess

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, which the goddess used in order to visit these places. Due to the village's location and environment, the village has attracted many

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and foreign residents.

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Tsada Tsada (earlier (before 1985) written Tsadha) is a relatively big village 8 km North of Paphos city center. Although the proximity between them, the 612 m elevation difference gives to the Tsada area a totally different identity. It re ...

Golf Course –

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is a 7 km drive from Armou. The Agia Varvara church is the only church in the village.

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