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Dhekelia

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Dhekelia (thĕkäl`yä), Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area, or Eastern Sovereign Base Area, British military base (2004 est. pop. 7,200), c.51 sq mi (131 sq km), SE Cyprus, on Larnaca Bay; an overseas territory of Great Britain. The base, which surrounds three small Cypriot enclaves, serves as a staging area for United Nations troops stationed in the Cyprus buffer zone. The residents are all military personnel or other British citizens. Dhekelia and Akrotiri Akrotiri , Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, or Western Sovereign Base Area, British air force base (2004 est. pop. 6,300), 47 sq mi (123 sq km), located on a peninsula on the SW Cyprus coast; an overseas territory of Great
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 remained under British sovereignty under the terms of the 1960 treaty that granted Cyprus independence.


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Most of the territory under discussion is in the eastern sovereign base at Dhekelia, although the important position at Ayios Nikolaos, home to a tri-Service signals unit, would be retained.
He added that the new agreement was for ''a project for the production of energy in Dhekelia, on the south coast, using diesel,'' and that ''the project is 64 MW, with a total of 42 turbines''.
The Larnaca - Dhekelia Bay boasts one of the longest beaches in Europe and has received blue flag awards for cleanliness.
 
 
 
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