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Deveciler Hanı was a caravansarai located in Nicosia, Cyprus. Its site is situated in the Selimiye quarter of North Nicosia. It was located to the south of the Selimiye Mosque and was one of the largest caravansarais in Nicosia. It was demolished in the 1960s and the site is now used as a parking lot.

Its name literally translated into "Camel Riders' Inn", and it was used as a site of accommodation for convoys of camels. It was also known as "Selimiye Hanı" or "Ayasofya Hanı" (St. Sophia's Inn, after the old name of the Selimiye Mosque).

The building had two gates, one to the north and one to the south. The northern gate had a wide arched entrance and has been completely demolished. The southern gate, which still partly stands, faces towards the former wholesales market of Bandabuliya, the municipal market.

In the 20th century, before being demolished, the building was used as a bus terminal, especially for buses coming from the villages to the town's marketplace. The establishments in the building included a tavern (meyhane) owned by an old lady called Halide Genapla (Aunt Halide). Upon the ban on the entrance of buses into the walled city and the decline of the municipal market in popularity, the caravansarai lost its splendour and the tavern closed down.