Lefka (Greek: Λεύκα; Turkish: Lefke) is a town in Cyprus, overlooking Morphou Bay.

The city houses the tomb of Nazim al-Haqqani, spiritual head of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, died on 7 May 2014.

Another hypothesis states that a sick Christian girl named "Lefka", meaning poplar in Greek, came to the town to be healed by the clean air from the mountains.

Ancient tombs dating to Hellenistic and Roman eras (between 310 BC and 150 AD) have been found around the town.

In the Roman period, the nearby Karavostasi served as a port town for trade with and transport to Egypt.

Under the Lusignans and Venetians, Lefka served as a district capital, home to Frankish and Latin captains, barons and officers.

The Lusignan royal family sought refuge in the town when Cyprus was attacked by the Mamluks in 1425.

The town was home to a clean and simple inn in the Middle Ages, serving as a lodging place for those who visited the churches in Soli, Vouni, Solia and Maratasa in the Troodos Mountains.

[5] In the early 16th century, the town was recorded to be the centre of a bailaggio consisting of a group of villages.

Lefka and Morphou had been particularly chosen in the acquisition of royal estates for the profitable cultivation of sugar, being placed at the fertile western end of the Mesaoria plain.

[7] After the 1571 Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, Turks from Anatolia were settled in the land and houses that belonged to the Latins in the town.