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Camirus
Ancient Rhodian city / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the ancient city of Rhodes. For the town of ancient Crete, Greece, see Camirus (Crete). For the genus of shield-backed bugs in the family Scutelleridae, see Camirus (bug).
"Kameiros" redirects here. For the modern municipality, see Kameiros (municipality).
Camirus or Kamiros (Ancient Greek: Κάμιρος; /kəˈmaɪərəs/) or Cameirus or Kameiros (Κάμειρος) was a city of ancient Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Its site is on the northwest coast of the island, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the modern village of Kalavarda.
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