UNFICYP - Sector 2 Headquarters - Formerly Wosley Barracks
Cyprus /
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Home to the Canadian battalion for 20 years (after 1974 invasion). Battalion HQ and HQ for City Company.
ector Two is the responsibility of the British Contingent, and has been since 1993 when the Canadian Contingent withdrew its major unit from UNFICYP.
The responsibility of the unit is to patrol and monitor military activity over 30 kilometers along the buffer zone, beginning at the east end of Mammari village and ending at the village of Kaimakli to the east of Nicosia.
The Sector’s Headquarters is located at Wolseley Barracks, inside the buffer zone near the western edge of the Venetian Walls that surround Nicosia’s old town.
ector Two is the responsibility of the British Contingent, and has been since 1993 when the Canadian Contingent withdrew its major unit from UNFICYP.
The responsibility of the unit is to patrol and monitor military activity over 30 kilometers along the buffer zone, beginning at the east end of Mammari village and ending at the village of Kaimakli to the east of Nicosia.
The Sector’s Headquarters is located at Wolseley Barracks, inside the buffer zone near the western edge of the Venetian Walls that surround Nicosia’s old town.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°10'35"N 33°21'12"E
- Turkish Army Turkeli Barracks 17 km
- Pashakoy 28th Mech.Infantry Division - Turkish Army 22 km
- Gurpinar Barracks / Large Turkish Army Base and Training Areas 23 km
- Road Airbase 27 km
- Turkish Armed Forces - 61st Infantry Troop Regiment 29 km
- United Nations Green Line 59 km
- Episkopi Garrison 73 km
- Royal Air Force (RAF) Akrotiri 75 km
- RAF Akrotiri Western Sovereign Bases Area (of UK) 76 km
- Paphos International Airport 95 km
- Köşklüçiftlik 0.7 km
- Yenişehir 1.4 km
- Nicosia 1.6 km
- Agios Dometios Municipality 2.4 km
- Ortaköy 2.8 km
- Kızılay 3.3 km
- Aydemet 3.4 km
- Nicosia 5.3 km
- United Nations Green Line 16 km
- Nicosia District 27 km