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Othello’s Tower
citadel, Famagusta, Cyprus
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- In Famagusta
…stands the citadel known as Othello’s Tower, so called because a lieutenant-governor of Cyprus (1506–08) named Christoforo Moro was allegedly the model for the title character in Shakespeare’s play Othello. Famagusta fell to the Turks after a bitter and prolonged siege in 1570–71.
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