Agia Trias / Sipahi
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Agia Trias / Sipahi Αγία Τριάς / Agia Trias Sipahi |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 32 ' N , 34 ° 13' E | ||
| Residents : | 614 (2011) | ||
Agia Trias ( Greek Αγία Τριάς ) or Turkish Sipahi is a village on the Karpas peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . The place is in the İskele district of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was founded in 1983 but is not recognized internationally . In 2011, Sipahi had 614 residents. The place, in which almost exclusively Cyprus-Greeks lived until about 1976 , is 2 km east of Yialousa / Yeni Erenköy . Besides Yialousa, it is the only place on the Karpas where a comparatively large number of Greeks still live.
Surname
The Greek name means Holy Trinity , while the Turkish name goes back to the Sipahi , the Ottoman horsemen. However, this name was not given immediately after this institution, but, since Agia Trias was an important tobacco area , after a cigarette brand. This also applies to other places, such as Vothylakas , which was now called Derince , Vokolida became Bafra , Vasili Gelincik , Yialousa became Maltepe , and later Yeni Erenköy .
history
When the British took over Cyprus in 1878, counts began as early as 1881 at intervals of ten years, but the village was not counted as a separate entity until 1946. In that year there were 1078 residents, exclusively Greek-speaking, in 1960 there were 1121, in 1973 exactly 1212.
With the occupation of the north by the Turkish army in 1974, the Greek inhabitants of the north were mostly expelled, while Turkish-speaking Cypriots fled north from the south. In 1976 there were 675 inhabitants whose nationality was not given. Most of the Greeks stayed initially because the Karpas was cut off from the rest of the island. In October 1975, 1,036 Greeks lived in the village, but their number decreased to 740 by December 1976, to 273 by May 1980, and finally to 134 by 1994. Between 1974 and 1985, around 1100 Greeks had to flee the village. The population fell to 508 by 1996, but rose again to 659 by 2006 without ethnicity being recorded in the censuses. Today about 120 Greeks live in the place, which makes it one of the two enclaves in which a larger number of them live next to Rizokarpaso / Dipkarpaz .
Between 1976 and 1977 Turks immigrated, mostly from the Maçka , Sürmene or Araklı districts of the Trabzon province . In recent years, Europeans and Turks have acquired some real estate.
Web links
- Agia Trias , table on population development since 1946 and further information on Agia Trias / Sipahi
Remarks
- ↑ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı . TRNC. August 6, 2013.