Omonoia ( el, Ομόνοια ), is a quarter in the municipality of

Limassol Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population ...

in the

Limassol District Limassol District () or Lemesos ( el, Λεμεσός) is one of the six districts of Cyprus. , it had a population of 239,842, 77% of which was urban. Its main city is Limassol. Part of the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia for ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

. It is situated near the

Port of Limassol The Port of Limassol is the largest port in Cyprus, located in the city of Limassol. Location The port is located in the Eastern Mediterranean and is considered one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean transit trade. Importance Limassol's ...

. The quarter takes its name from the Omonoias Avenue. It borders

Saint Spyridonas Saint Spyridon, Bishop of Trimythous also sometimes written Saint Spiridon (Greek: ; c. 270 – 348) is a saint honoured in both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. Life Spyridon was born in Askeia, in Cyprus. He worked as a shepher ...

to the west and Agios Ioannis to the east. Many central avenues go by around Omonoia, namely Pafou Avenue, Omonoias Avenue, Franklin Roosevelt Avenue and Makarios Avenue, making it a high traffic area. The

, one of the largest commercial ports in the

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, is situated in Omonoia. Therefore it is generally known in Cyprus as the home of intense commercial

shipping Freight transport, also referred as ''Freight Forwarding'', is the physical process of transporting Commodity, commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it h ...

activity. The offices of dozens of shipping companies are along Omonoias Avenue.

History

Before 1960 the area of Omonoia was a large plain, in which there were only a few farmhouses. In 1938-39, during the

British occupation The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...

, an airport was built and operated by the British in the area. The airport was considered necessary due to World War II. Allied forces had set up camps in neighbouring Palestine and Egypt, which needed protection from the German navy and air force. Cyprus itself needed protection. The airport channel started from the area of Omonoia and continued to the area of Agios Spyridon. The land, which was seized by the British, belonged to Greek Cypriot landowners. After the end of the war, the airport continued to operate for several years. In 1947-48 it was abandoned and the land was returned to its owners. In the 1960s the landscaping of the area began, resulting in the creation of the districts of Omonoia and Agios Spyridon. However, the bus was not damaged and was used for a few years as a place for practising apprentice drivers. Due to the existence of the airport, the area of Omonoia and Agios Spyridon had acquired the toponym ''airport''.

Development

The project ''Creation of a Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Municipality’s premises on Franklin Roosevelt Street'' is being built partially inside Omonoia area.

Notable Architecture

# Zavos Pavilion Center (completed in 2014) is a green energy building that makes use of new technologies. # The 13-storey PIERIS building is referred by the media as one of the 'ghost buildings' of Limassol. It was semi-completed more than 40 earlier and left in this ghostly state ever since. One local newspaper reports the allegation that the person who started the project presold the office spaces and then left the building unfinished while he himself left the Cyprus Republic for eve

The same local newspaper claims that the Pieris building is a modernist high building built before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish Invasion in 1974 along other similar buildings in Limassol with the aim of antagonizing the already developed modernist architecture of

Ammochostos Famagusta ( , ; el, Αμμόχωστος, Ammóchostos, ; tr, Gazimağusa or ) is a city on the east coast of Cyprus. It is located east of Nicosia and possesses the deepest harbour of the island. During the Middle Ages (especially under th ...

city.

Area Map

References

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