Bogazi / Boğaz
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Bogazi Μπογάζι Boğaz |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 19 ′ N , 33 ° 57 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 157 (2011) | ||
Bogazi ( Greek Μπογάζι ), Turkish Boğaz , is a place on the Karpas peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . In 2011 it had 157 inhabitants. Until 1974 the village was exclusively inhabited by Greek Cypriots.
history
The first Ottoman census from 1831 does not mention the village, so it is assumed that it was only formed after that. It was first recorded in the 1911 census, when 7 Turkish and 8 Greek residents were found. If you follow Jack Goodwin, the village was first mentioned as "Boghaz Trading Stations". Ten years after the said census, 26 people lived in the village, of whom only two were Turks, whereas in 1931 of the 188 inhabitants 52 were Turks, the remaining 136 were counted as Greeks. By 1946 the Turkish minority had almost completely disappeared from the village, because that year there were only 5 Turks out of 115 inhabitants. In 1960 there were only 2 Cypriot Turks out of 90 inhabitants, 88 inhabitants were considered Cyprus Greeks. The strong fluctuations in the Turkish share of the population, which oscillated between 2 and 47%, are likely to be due to Turkish seasonal workers in the trading post. In 1963 there was a camp of the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the village. In 1973 there were 108 Greeks and 12 “others”, apparently no Turks. The village was considered a Greek destination, and some summer houses were built in the area.
In August 1974, the more than 100 residents fled from the advancing Turkish army to the south of the island, where they have since been widely scattered. Instead, Turkish-speaking Cypriots from the Larnaka district came to the village. Returnees from Nicosia and Famagusta , but also from England, bought empty houses and built new ones, so that in 1996 the place had 100 residents again. By 2006, that number rose rapidly to 295, but dropped back to 157 five years later.
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Remarks
- ↑ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı , August 6, 2013.