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Episkopi Bay from Kourion

Episkopi Bay

Episkopi Bay is a bay of the Mediterranean Sea on the coast of the Western Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, along the south-western shore of Cyprus. The bay is famous for its beach and fish restaurants.

Despite the ethnic division of Cyprus in 1974, following the inter-communal riots and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the island, a number of Turkish Cypriots chose to remain in the area, known to them as Piskobu Körfezi, and to their neighbours as Κόλπος Επισκοπής.

The Symvoulos River enters the Mediterranean here. (Read more)