SALAMIS | Ancient Greek City on the Island of Cyprus

Exploring the ancient city of Salamis, first built by the Greeks in around 1,000 BC and now located a few miles from the modern city of Famagusta (also called Gazimagusa) in Northern Cyprus.

Music during the video (in order):

"The Emperor's Army" by Jeremy Blake
&
"Narrow Escape" by Dream Cave

Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!

[KMakrozahopoulos]

I’m glad you exposed the ticket guy. It’s unbelievable that he works in a historic place and either he lied either he was clueless.

[Allexander]

Thank you Gabe for your research! Greeks and Romans were called Rum in Byzantine Empire! That's the point the turks not understand that behind the Byzantine empire standed Greeks and Romans and the language which was spoken was Greek.

[bits_for_bytes]

I’m inspired to see the Mediterranean, you’ve helped motivate me to fulfill that life long goal

[isamaaltaein]

Hi Gabe, great video, thank you for sharing. Chaos

[mariliatanteles]

Hi great videos. I was born in famagusta Αμμόχωστος and now i live in athens due to the turkish invasion. Just two things . First there is no northern cyprus just one republic of cyprus according to the united nations. Second the turks try to erase the history of greeks thats why they dont mention historic facts like in the case of salamis. Even the name is greek.

[mgreentin]

Lovely video....Hopefully this gorgeous island will soon be unified as one independent Cyprus, it will definitely be glorious for archeologist. The Turk Cypriots have been seriously marginalized by Turkey, most fleeing to the UK, & others to the south of the island to live & work in peace with their fellow Greek Cypriots. The north is now largely habited by settlers from Turkey. The propaganda by a few troublemakers is in the distant past, all Cypriots, both Cypriot Greek & genuine Cypriot Turks have moved on & want unity.

[HappySlappii]

You need to get Google lens for your phone. It can translate pictures in real time. It would have worked perfectly for that

[timreynolds]

It's obvious that both Turks and Greeks have historical claims on Cyprus which certainly throws colour on the current status quo

[tedn]

Byzantine is an anachronism. There never was a byzantine empire. It is a name given by westerners centuries after the demise of the roman empire in 1453 to distinguish the western roman empire from Eastern. So the population in the East before the split was mainly greek speaking and remained greek speaking. A century after the west's collapse Latin was still used but only for law. Justinian code is what most people consider roman law and that was written in 6th century. Slowly Latin was dropped. So this idea that cyprus, greece, Anatolia, the Levant were roman then passed to byzantium were a fiction.

[Ivyslife]

So much history 😍 this place reminds me of Ephesus in Turkey, love it 🙏♥️

[odissey]

Anyway now it is a Ottoman land. We need to admit it and deal with it