Episkopi, Limassol
Episkopi is a village and a municipal district of the Kourion Municipality lying partly in the Limassol district of Cyprus and partly in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Its current Deputy Mayor is Lefkios Prodromou. It is approximately west of Limassol and east of Paphos. Episkopi is built on the hill of ancient Kourion, close to the western bank of the Kouris River.
History
In the medieval Kingdom of Cyprus, Episkopi was granted in fief to the House of Ibelin. It was in the hands of Federico [Cornaro (died 1382)|Federico Cornaro] of the Republic of Venice from 1367 and granted to him in 1374 by the indebted king. It was known as La Piscopia da Cornaro, and the branch of the Cornaro family descended from Federico became known as Cornaro Piscopia. The Cornaros ran a large sugar plantation in their fief near Episkopi that employed slaves of Syrian or Arab origin or local serfs.Before the 1974 invasion, the village had 3,000 Turkish residents. Later, the majority of them left the village for England.