The traditional founder of Salamis, an ancient…

The traditional founder of Salamis, an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, six kilometers north of modern Famagusta, was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan War because he had failed to avenge his brother Aias (Ajax).

The earliest archaeological finds go back to the eleventh century BCE (Late Bronze Age III).

The copper ores of Cyprus made the island an essential node in the earliest trade networks, and Cyprus will be a source of the orientalizing cultural traits of mainland Greece at the end of the Greek Dark Ages, hypothesized by Walter Burkert in 1992.

Children's burials in Canaanite jars indicate a Phoenician presence.

A harbor and a cemetery from this period have been excavated.