Troodos Mountains in the context of "Mount Olympus (Cyprus)"

Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and the 80th-largest island in the world by area. It is located south of the Anatolian Peninsula, yet it belongs to the Cyprus Arc. Geographically, Cyprus is located in West Asia, but the country is considered a European country in political geography. Cyprus also had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Western European influence.

The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains or Pentadaktylos, and the central plain, the Mesaoria, between them. The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area. The narrow Kyrenia Range extends along the northern coastline. It is not as high as the Troodos Mountains, and it occupies substantially less area. The two mountain ranges run generally parallel to the Taurus Mountains on the Turkish mainland, the outlines of which are visible from northern Cyprus. Coastal lowlands, varying in width, surround the island.

Kato Pyrgos (Greek: Κάτω Πύργος) is a village in Cyprus. Kato Pyrgos is the only Greek Cypriot village located on Morphou Bay and controlled by the Republic of Cyprus. Due to its location, being surrounded by the Troodos Mountains, the Turkish controlled exclave of Kokkina, and the Green Line, it is rather isolated and difficult to reach, and gets significant numbers of visitors only in August during summer vacation.

A Green Line crossing point was opened near Kato Pyrgos on 18 October 2010 to facilitate travel from there to Nicosia.

The Pedieos (also Pediaios or Pediaeus or Pithkias; Greek: Πεδιαίος/Πηθκιάς, Turkish: Kanlı Dere) is the longest river in Cyprus. The river originates in the Machairas Forest in the Troodos Mountains close to Machairas Monastery and flows northeast across the Mesaoria plains, through the capital city Nicosia. It then steers east, meeting the sea at Famagusta Bay close to the ancient Greek city of Salamis. Maximum depth is 10 meters.

The river has a total length of 98 km. An 18 km stretch of the river banks, in and around Nicosia, has been turned into pedestrian walkways.

The Lizard complex, Cornwall is generally accepted to represent a preserved example of an exposed ophiolite complex in the United Kingdom. The rocks found in The Lizard area are analogous to those found in such famous areas as the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus and the Semail Ophiolite, Oman.

In a general sense, the Machairas Forest is the forested area at the eastern end of the Troodos mountain range or massif in south-central Cyprus and, more specifically, it is a state forest and national park covering around 46.37 km (17.90 sq mi) in the northern foot-hills of Kionia Peak, the highest point in the eastern Troodos.

Machairas forest is a Mediterranean type forest consisting primarily of Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia), which is similar to the Aleppo pine, and Golden Oak (Quercus alnifolia), the national tree of Cyprus. In some areas these are mixed together and in others they occur separately.

The Gialias (also Yialias; Γιαλιάς, Çakıllı Dere/Yalya Deresi) is the second longest river in Cyprus. It has a length of 88 km (55 mi), river originating in the Troodos Mountains and Mesaoria. In its course passes through the plain of Mesaoria and flows into Famagusta Bay. Its depth reaches up to 9 meters.

In 1952, the Pano Lythrodonta dam with a capacity of 32,000 m3 and a height of 10 meters was built in Gialias.

The Alikos or Alykos (Greek: Αλυκός or Greek: Άλυκος, Turkish: Alikos) is a river in Nicosia District, Cyprus, a tributary of the Yialias. The river originates in the Machairas Forest in the Troodos Mountains close to Kapedes and flows northeast across the Mesaoria plain, to Ayios Sozomenos, south east of Nicosia, where is joins the Yialias.

The Alikos is only an intermittently flowing river. Near its source the average rainfall is around 52.5 cm (20.7 in) per annum.