LARNACA

larnaca, larnica or larneca (anc. _citium_, turk. _tuzla_), a town of the island of cyprus, at the head of a bay on the south coast, 23 m. s.s.e. from nicosia. pop. (1901) 7964. it is the principal port of the island, exporting barley, wheat, cotton, raisins, oranges, lemons and gypsum. there is an iron pier 450 ft. long, but vessels anchor in the bay in from 16 to 70 ft. of water. larnaca occupies the site of the ancient _citium_, but the citadel of the ancient city was used to fill up the ancient harbour in 1879. the modern and principal residential part of the town is called scala. mycenaean tombs and other antiquities have been found (see cyprus).