Koilanemos / Esenköy
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Koilanemos Κοιλάνεμος Esenköy |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 30 ' N , 34 ° 9' E | ||
| Residents : | 58 (2011) | ||
Koilanemos ( Greek Κοιλάνεμος ), Turkish Esenköy , is a small village on the Karpas peninsula in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . In 2011 it had 58 inhabitants. The village is a good 6 km southwest of Yialousa / Yeni Erenköy .
Koilanemos means either 'windy valley' (koilada = valley, anemos = wind) and is accordingly derived from the Greek, or it is the corruption of the Italian word Collina for 'little hill'. The Turkish name Esenköy is a translation of the Greek meaning, so it also means 'windy valley'.
history
The first Ottoman census of 1831 names 17 heads of household, ten of whom were considered Greeks and seven as Turks. Apparently the village was a Greek settlement with a strong Turkish minority early on. However, while under British colonial rule the number of Greeks had risen to 55 in 1891, the number of Turks stagnated at 11 and fell to 3 by 1901. In 1891 the village had 192 residents.
In 1901 there were 59 Greeks, ten years later 81, in 1921 89 and another ten years later 96 Greeks. The number of Turks, however, remained much lower. In 1911 there were 6, in 1921 there were 14 and in 1931 again 10. After the Second World War the number of Greeks reached the highest point in 1946 with 136 inhabitants, as did the number of Turks with 17. But after that the population decreased considerably, so that in 1960 only 85 Greeks and 12 Turks were still counted in the village, which now had less than 100 inhabitants, after 153 had been counted in 1946.
Tensions between the two ethnic and religious groups increased sharply across the island, with most Greeks demanding to join Greece ( Enosis ). In 1958, the Turks fled the village to seek safety in Famagusta , but most returned in 1960. In December 1963 they had to flee again.
The Greeks, for their part, fled south from the approaching Turkish troops in August 1974. In October 1975, 29 Greeks still lived in the village, but they all had to leave Koilanemos by December 1976. They lived scattered in the Greek part of the island, their number is now estimated at around 90.
The majority of today's villagers came to Erenköy in 1977, as it was now called. Most of them come from the Adana province in southern Turkey. Only one family of the original inhabitants still lives in the village. In 1978 there were 57 inhabitants, in 1996 there were 61, ten years later 58, a number that was also determined in 2011.
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Remarks
- ↑ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı , August 6, 2013.