Salamis

What this place is

• Port — the eastern harbour of Cyprus, and the island's first landfall on Paul's first journey

Seat of

• Archbishop of Cyprus

Who is recorded here

• Barnabas birth · AD 1
• Barnabas travel · AD 46
• Mark the Evangelist travel · AD 46
• Paul the Apostle ministry · AD 46
• Barnabas ministry · AD 49
• Mark the Evangelist travel · AD 49
• Barnabas death · AD 61
• Paul IV of Constantinople birth
• Paul the Apostle residence

What happened here

• Barnabas returns to Cyprus with Mark AD 50
• The Martyrdom of Barnabas at Salamis AD 61
• Epiphanius writes the Panarion AD 377
• The finding of the tomb of Barnabas AD 478

In art

• File:Salamis.jpg — No machine-readable author provided. Gustavobw assumed (based on copyright claims).

About the place

Salamis was an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of modern Famagusta.

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