Central Jail of Nicosia

The Central Jail of Nicosia (Greek: Κεντρικές Φυλακές Λευκωσίας) is the only prison of the Republic of Cyprus.

During the Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974) battles raged around the Central Jail of Lefkosia.

Vastly outnumbered, the Cypriot national guardsmen - aided by corrections officers - managed to fight off the Turks and keep the prison from being captured.

[2][3][4] The prison is also the location of the Imprisoned Graves, where 13 EOKA fighters who lost their lives during the Cyprus Emergency, nine of whom were executed by the British in the prison, three were killed in action, and one died in hospital from battle wounds, are interred.

A section of the prison grounds where the Imprisoned Graves are located along with the nearby condemned cells and gallows room where EOKA prisoners condemned to death were held and executed has been converted into a museum open to the public.