Can Anyone Help With A Translation?

[wolf63]

I have two nice looking postcards that I am trying to value so that they can be sold.

https://postimg.cc/7G23dv3P

I tried typing the text into Uncle Google - but I failed miserably.
St Andrew's Church is as far as I got with one. I think that it is from Ukraine.

Can anyone give me an idea of where they are from and anything else?

I know that we are not going to sell it for much money - but every little helps.
☺☺

[gingejbee]

First one is Kiev...second one says "Cyprus" in four languages.

[Toorak]

The top is st andrew’s church in Kiev (I think the street below is called st andrew’s descent)
The bottom is Cyprus - that is all it says, no resort name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriyivskyy_Descent

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Kyiv

[ichkeria]

The translations are on the cards :-)

Kyiv and Cyprus

I've been in the church btw: nowhere near as impressive inside as out ...

[gingejbee]

I'd think the languages on the second are English(!), Russian, Greek and Turkish.

[ichkeria]

German

[Toorak]

Not Turkish - Kibris is Turkish for Cyprus

[wolf63]

Thanks to all of you, my eyesight and lack of patience always seem to cause problems.

Thanks

[gingejbee]

..ah well, I did say "I'd think"! (it was from my head and not google)

[wolf63]

When it is a language that uses the same alphabetical symbols as ours does it is easier to guess a rough translation.

But the 'funny' symbols confuse me.

[ichkeria]

It's strange that on the Cypriot one the Greek is after the Russian :-)

I think Turkish would be unlikely anyway perhaps ...

[gingejbee]

"Funny symbols"...having been to USSR several times, am used to Cyrillic alphabet, and doing Greek at school still helps occasionally!

[gness]

The Cyprus one is Limassol. See the sculpture on the rocks. There is also a building with a name. House is the second word. Can't make out the first.

[ichkeria]

Modern Greek is a bit of a shock after doing Classical Greek.
I still remember being bemused by "Ali Mpampa" on a chidrens book until I realised that "mp" is now the Greek "B"
And why was beer "mpura" :-)

[Toorak]

Well spotted gness - more here

http://cyprusfortravellers.net/en/review/limassol-past-and-present-coastal-city

[gness]

Thanks, Toorak....and I see from your link that it's Salamis House!