The Development and Transformation of the City of Famagusta Inner-city in Cyprus

The aim of the study is to research the development and transformation of this city, which has gathered a dense architectural heritage throughout the centuries, due to the coincidence of sovereignties and influences of different nations with different cultural and social accumulation.

The selected topic of this research is The Development and Transformation of the City of Famagusta Inner city - intra-muros - in Cyprus, a city whose history of settlement reaches far back to Arsinoe, a city founded by Egyptian king Ptolomy Philadelphus around 285-247 BC. However, Famagusta had a strong population increase after 648 AD as a result of the Arabic invasions to the nearby ancient city of Salamis, a few miles to the north.