morfou

Updated: May 18, 2025

The site is still insufficiently explored. Soli lay upon the coast, in the recess of the gulf of Morfou. The fiction of its foundation by Philocyprus at the suggestion of Solon is entirely disproved by the occurrence of the name in the Assyrian lists of Cyprian towns a century before Solon's time.

George Rawlinson - History of Phoenicia

The fertility of the soil was reckoned in ancient times to equal that of Egypt. The western plain, that of Morfou, is much smaller, and is watered by a less important river. The whole island, when it first became known to the Phoenicians, was well wooded.

George Rawlinson - History of Phoenicia