Agios Vasilios / Türkeli

Agios Vasilios Άγιος Βασίλειος Ayvasıl / Türkeli
Basic data
State :	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
District :	Lefkoşa
Geographic coordinates :	35 ° 13 '  N , 33 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 13 '  N , 33 ° 11'  E
Height above d. M .:	160  m
Residents :	154 (2011)

Agios Vasilios ( Greek Άγιος Βασίλειος ) Turkish Ayvasıl or Türkeli is a village in the north of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . The village is 18 kilometers west of Lefkoşa and 17 km east of Morfou and formally belongs to the Nicosia District of the Republic of Cyprus . In 1974 Turkish army units conquered the place, since 1983 it has been in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and belongs to its Lefkoşa district .

The churches of Agiou Vasilou, which were restored in 2008, as well as the chapels of Agia Marina and Agiou Trifona are located on the municipal boundary.

In 1958 there were 492 Greeks and 117 Turks living in the village. In connection with the Bloody Christmas of 1963 , 21 Turkish residents of the town were murdered by Greek extremists near Agios Vasilios. Up until then, 436 Greeks and 94 Turks lived there. As early as 1958, a serious incident involving several hundred people could only be prevented with great difficulty. On August 3, 1974, Turkish Cypriots murdered 14 Greek Cypriots in the town, in whose school in 1973 64 pupils were still being taught. All Greek residents had to flee after the Turkish invasion .

Web links

• Agios Vasilios Village

Remarks

1. ↑ Yiannis Papadakis: Echoes from the Dead Zone. Across the Cyprus Divide , IBTauris, 2005, p. 84.
2. ↑ Jan Asmussen: "We were like brothers". Coexistence and the emergence of conflicts in ethnically mixed villages in Cyprus , LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, p. 238.