LEUCO´SIA
LEUCO´SIA (
Λευκωσία,
Λευκουσία), a city of Cyprus, which is mentioned only by Hierocles and the ecclesiastical historian Sozomen (
H. E. 1.3, 10).
The name is preserved in the modern
Lefkosia or
Nikosia, the capital of the island. (Engel,
Kypros, vol. i. p. 150; Mariti,
Viaggi, vol. i. p. 89; Pococke,
Trav. in the East, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 221.)
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