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thirsty as they were they sat down and prayed to their Saint to help them. As they were praying they saw water coming from the marble stones next to them. They drank water and thanked St
Panteleimon for his help. In the same place today you can find the Agiasma (holy water) of St Panteleimon. At first the two monks built a small church and two rooms for themselves. An icon of St Panteleimon was placed in the church together with his relics for believers to visit. The monastery is said to have been founded around 1600 A.D. The church has been greatly altered and enlarged and around 17th-18th centuries the original nave was demolished and rebuilt with a remarkable loggia of pointed arches and vaulting (south side). Between the nave and the loggia is the chapel of St Panteleimon of an ancient date.
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and returned to Cyprus to start a new monastery. With them they brought pieces of the holy bones of St
Panteleimon. The two monks tried to find a quiet place in the Lapithos and Karavas area but with no result. They moved on to an area today called AERAS, which was full of wild vegetation. Tired and
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The area saw extensive fighting in 1974. Myrtou is at the high point of the lowest pass through the
Kyrenia mountains in the area and once through the pass, there is a clear run to Nicosia and thence Famagusta. It came within range of artillery in the mountains above Lapithos, Contemporary reports
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Gradually the monastery grew bigger, acquiring property, becoming one of the richest monasteries of the island, offering jobs to the people of the villages around the area. The monastery possessed many fields, used for cultivation, sheep, goats and cattle. Later the people working at the monastery
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The village for many years had a limited number of people because the administrator of the monastery's property was the
Metropolis of Kyrenia. When the Metropolis decided to start dividing the land to smaller plots, the village begun to grow bigger and bigger. People could buy a plot of land build
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The majority of the people living at Myrtou were farmers cultivating their fields or raising sheep, goats and cattle. Other were working at
Nicosia or Xeros. Of course you could find carpenters, mechanics, butchers, storekeepers and so on. After 1974, Turkish Cypriots from
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The village hosts a military camp, and some of its houses are used for military personnel and their families. Until recently the monastery was in a closed military zone. In the 1990s the area was a major military encampment and travellers on the road from
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their house and stay in their village rather than to move to the towns. In 1881 there were 69 buildings in the village and the population was 278, plus another 20 in the monastery. Myrtou's population grew to 710 at independence in 1960,
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Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the (bi-communal) Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, and EU started conservation works to St Panteleimon monastery on 9 October 2015.
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The story of the monastery's foundation has not been recorded, however, according to tradition, two monks from
Lapithos, called Dorotheos and Dositheos, left their monastery of St Panteleimon at
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show that during the August cease fire, the Greek and
Turkish armies were only 100 yards apart. Separated by a thin line of British soldiers who had orders not to open fire.
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The present Turkish name Çamlıbel means "area with pines", and the village is currently on the edge of the Akdeniz National park with its pine forests and woodland walks.
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