Prastio Πραστιό | |
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Coordinates: 34°48′40″N33°8′35″E / 34.81111°N 33.14306°E Coordinates: 34°48′40″N33°8′35″E / 34.81111°N 33.14306°E | |
Country | ![]() |
District | Limassol District |
Population (2001) [1] | |
• Total | 81 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Website | http://www.prastiokellakiou.org/ |
Prastio (Greek : Πραστιό) is a village located in the Limassol District of Cyprus, near the village of Kellaki, northeast of Limassol.
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It has the longest documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning more than 3000 years of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the major part of its history; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were used previously. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.
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