Flamoudi / Mersinlik
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Flamoudi / Mersinlik Φλαμούδι Mersinlik |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 24 ' N , 33 ° 51' E | ||
| Residents : | 158 (2011) | ||
Flamoudi or Mersinlik (Greek: Φλαμούδι) is a village on the Karpas peninsula in the north of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus , 6 km west of Kantara Castle . The Greek name possibly goes back to phlamouri , which means 'linden blossom'. Mersinlik, the name the village has borne since 1975, means 'place of the myrsine trees '.
history
In 1831, while the island was still part of the Ottoman Empire , the place had 33 male heads of household (only these were counted). In 1891, under British colonial rule, a "Turk" and 233 "Greeks" lived there. "Greeks" was the general term for all Christians in the censuses, "Turks" were all Muslims. In this sense, Flamoudi was an almost purely Greek village. Only in the censuses of 1891 and 1901 did a single Turk appear, and only then were 17 Turks recorded again in 1921. Otherwise 230 Greeks lived in the village in 1891, compared to 232 in 1901. After that, the number of residents rose steadily. In 1911 there were 269, by 1921 the number of residents rose to 335, but it fell slightly to 326 by 1931, apparently because the 17 Turks had left the village. With 366 inhabitants, Flamoudi reached its highest population in 1946. By 1960 this had dropped to 299.
In August 1974, most of the residents fled from the approaching Turkish troops. The 1960 census had recorded 247 Cypriot Greeks. In 1976 and 1977 Turks who came from the Trabzon province on the Black Sea, more precisely from the Çaykara district , were settled in the place . In 1978 the village had just 98 inhabitants, in 1996 there were 159, ten years later 169. In 2011 the village had lost another eleven inhabitants. The church of Agios Georgios, built around 1894, was converted into a mosque.