Talk:Ayia Napa/Archive 1

Tourism
This section reads like a copy from a magazine article or tourist brochure. The sea monster reference as written is just ridiculous.--Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 23:03, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I've tried to rewrite this section to make it sound less like a thomas cook advert, I think I may have been a bit clumsy with it though, section could do with somone checking through it to make sure it reads ok. I decided to leave in the bit with the sea monster, as it links back to an article which discusses the existance of the creature objectively. Alexjcharlton (talk) 08:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I propose that unless references are forthcoming, this section be removed one week after it was tagged as unreferenced, i.e. on 7 July. It serves no purpose other than a magnet for WP:OR and WP:PROMO. - Brianhe (talk) 06:20, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Untitled
Protaras is a resort in its own name. It should not redirect to Ayia Napa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.228.175.90 (talk) 23:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Map
The map is awful. Neither Ayia napa nor Dhekelia is marked. 122.167.143.9 04:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Cut off?
This map: seems to indicate that the Ayia Napa region is isolated from the rest of Cyprus by the Dhekelia sovereign base area. Is this actually the case, or is it possible to pass through the base area? 217.155.20.163 20:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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Monster
Hey, shouldn't somebody rewrite a little the sentence about the Monster? It's fine to have the reference and the link to the Monster's entry... but to word it as "there lives the monster (...) it has been spotted only a dozen times" is quite strange for anybody who doesn't believe in sea monsters. I suggest: "...is reported to live the A.N. Sea Monster, often quoted as a tourist attraction..." and perhaps nothing more, as the entry of the monster contains enough information. --Ilyacadiz (talk) 22:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Untitled
Ayia Napa doesn't mean saint napa. It means saint of the napa ie saint of the wooded valley. Named after the unknown (as far as I'm aware) shepherd who found the icon of mary in the cave that led to the founding of the monastery that led to the town growing up around it much later. The greek for saint is άγιος or ayios not αγία or ayia.

Agia isn't the anglicised version but the greek, the second letter being gamma. Ayia is the English tranliteration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.108.73.47 (talk) 12:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello,

Thank you for pointing that out. Agia is actually the female form of agios. I corrected the bit about "Saint Napa". Travelbird 12:31, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, so what's the accepted spelling for this article? It's inconsistent throughout. As a Brit I have to say Agia Napa seems a better English spelling; 'Ayia' is a very 'British' transliteration (i.e. wrong) - as indicated, the second letter is gamma (which isn't pronounced like a hard English G but certainly isn't pronounced like a Y). Either way the spelling in the article should be standardised. Xyster, 27 July 2006


 * Modern Greek gamma has (broadly speaking) two pronunciations, depending on the vowel that follows. Before e and i sounds, it certainly is a kind of y (IPA j or, as given here, ʝ). So, in some transliterations, y is used before these vowels and g or gh elsewhere. It seems the official transcription prefers to use g everywhere presumably for the sake of consistency, although the pronunciation is different.


 * I'm confused by the change made to the pronunciation in this article on 28 November 2011 by an anonymous editor (IP address 109.228.110.183), changing aˈʝia to aˈʝa: it's a three-syllable word in Greek, and this change seems to turn it into a two-syllable word stressed on the final syllable. See http://www.forvo.com/search/%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1/ for native speakers pronouncing the word. I'm tempted to revert the change.
 * Sdoerr (talk) 12:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Monastery
The Wikipedia article in English mentions : "The present monastery, built in 1100"

The Wikipedia article in Spanish mentions : "En el siglo XIV se construyó la iglesia, ampliada por los venecianos en el siglo siguiente".

No references for both...

Which one is right ?

BTH (talk) 16:02, 7 November 2015 (UTC)