Eptakomi / Yedikonuk

Eptakomi Επτακώμη Yedikonuk
Basic data
State :	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
District :	İskele
Geographic coordinates :	35 ° 27 '  N , 34 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 27 '  N , 34 ° 2'  E
Height above d. M .:	126  m
Residents :	860 (2011)

Eptakomi ( Greek Επτακώμη ), Turkish Yedikonuk , is a place on the Karpas peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . In 2011 the village, which is 126 m above sea level, had 860 inhabitants.

Detail of the map of Cyprus from 1754, Alexander Drummond : Travels through different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates: In a series of letters. Containing an Account of what is most remarkable in their Present State, As well as in their Monuments of Antiquity , W. Strahan, London 1754, after p. 192

The name of the place is a reference to the seven settlements belonging to the municipality. These are Agios Epifanios, Archangelos Michael, Agia Agathi, Agia Erini, Apostolos Loukas, Naptokomi and Gnaptokomi. Between 1911 and 1921 the number of inhabitants peaked at 1017.

The small town that Alexander Drummond noted on his map published in 1754 only appeared occasionally in the international press, such as in 1889 when the British High Commissioner visited the region, which was suffering from severe drought. On December 31, 1952, a 24-hour wave of earthquakes took the place by surprise .

In the period before the civil war and the invasion of the north by the Turkish army (1974), Eptakomi was one of the few places on the Karpas where, in addition to the Greek majority of 580 residents, a strong minority of 228 Turkish residents lived. Eptakomi had a total of 808 inhabitants in 1973. In 1974 there were serious attacks. 16 Greeks have been missing from the town since 1974; a total of 1,532 Greek-speaking people were still missing in Cyprus in 2016. Many Greeks had already fled during the civil war of 1963, because in 1960 there were 738 Greeks.

After 1974 the village church was converted into a mosque , but it is no longer used because a new mosque was built. The Turkish-speaking new settlers received land, seeds and maintenance for one year in 1975. In addition, they were offered agricultural machinery, especially tractors , at very low prices, with three households each being able to purchase a tractor at a reduced price.

When the Greeks fled south, the place lost more than two thirds of its inhabitants, but this was almost offset in numbers by the flight of numerous Turks to the north, as well as the immigration of settlers and civil servants from Turkey. In 1978 Eptakomi-Yedikonuk still had 623 inhabitants. By 2006, that number rose to 859, five years later it was 860.

Eptakomi's famous 12th century Gospel manuscript was smuggled south from the village in 1974. A set of stamps was issued ten years later to commemorate the saving of manuscript.

Web links

• The Village of Eptakomi , documentary, Aktina TV

Remarks

1. ^ Journal of the Geography Society in Berlin 27 (1892), p. 455.
2. ↑ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı , August 6, 2013.
3. ^ Eptakomi Association UK
4. ^ Charles Henry Hart-Davis (ed.): Cyprus: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1921 , Cyprus. Census Office, Waterlow & sons limited, 1922, p. 6.
5. ↑ Salahi Ramadan Sonyel: Settlers and Refugees in Cyprus , Cyprus Turkish Association, 1991, p. 13
6. ↑ Bollettino di geofisica teorica ed applicata 133-140 (1992), p. 61.
7. ^ Found 16 missing persons from Eptakomi , Missing Cypriot.
8. ↑ Turkish occupied Cyprus: The Displace Greek Communities , click on Karpasia .
9. ↑ Yücel Vural, Başak Ekenoğlu: Politically motivated migration: The case of turkish migration to Northern Cyprus , in: Güven Şeker, Ali Tilbe, Mustafa Ökmen, Pınar Yazgan, Deniz Eroğlu, Ibrahim Sirkeci (eds.): Turkish Migration Conference 2015 Selected Proceedings , Transnational Press, London 2015, pp. 83–97, here: p. 93.
10. ↑ Eptakomi .
11. ↑ Kurt Aland et al. (Ed.): Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament , de Gruyter, 1994, p. 210.
12. ↑ Figure .
13. ↑ A description had previously appeared in Cyprus To-day 20-25 (1982), p. 18.