Mnemata is a

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Larnaca Larnaca ( el, Λάρνακα ; tr, Larnaka) is a city on the south east coast of Cyprus and the capital of the district of the same name. It is the third-largest city in the country, after Nicosia and Limassol, with a metro population of 144 ...

, Cyprus. An

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named the

Mnemata Site The Mnemata Site is an archaeological excavation site at the Mnemata locality of Larnaca, Cyprus. A tomb was discovered in 1979—during the construction of a refugee settlement. Built over the excavation site is now a supermarket. The site is l ...

is located here. Over the site a supermarket now stands. The area "had been used as a cemetery from the beginning of the Iron Age until the Roman times", and there were four cemeteries in its environs in 1989.

Archaeological excavation site

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—at the western

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of the city-kingdom of Kition—"that became known as the Agios Georgios cemetery, occupies the entire flat surface of the eminenc
an elevated land area or a hill
at Mnemata.

Etymology

''Mnemata'' means ''

grave A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as grave ...

s''.

References

{{reflist Geography of Cyprus