Kormakitis / Koruçam
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Kormakitis Κορμακίτης Koruçam / Kormacit |
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| State : |
 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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Girne
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 21 ′ N , 33 ° 1 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 309 (2011) | ||
Kormakitis ( Greek Κορμακίτης ( m. Sg. ), Turkish Koruçam , also Kormacit ) is a village with about 195 inhabitants in the northwest of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus .
Kormakitis lies roughly in the middle of the north coast of the island; the nearby Cape Kormakitis on the western foothills of the Pentadaktylos (Beşparmak) was named after the village. Kormakitis is located in the Çamlıbel district of the Girne district of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ; according to the old administrative structure of the Republic of Cyprus , it is a rural community (gr. kinótita κοινότητα) in the Kyrenia district .
Before the island was divided in 1974, Kormakitis had about 1000 inhabitants.
Kormakitis is considered to be the center of the Cypriot Maronite Church ; one of the four Maronite churches of Cyprus is also located here. Part of the population speaks Cypriot Arabic .
St. George's Church
Old St. George's Church
literature
- Alexander Borg: Cypriot arabic: a historical and comparative investigation into the phonology and morphology of the Arabic vernacular spoken by the Maronites of Kormakiti village in the Kyrenia district of North-Western Cyprus. Steiner, Stuttgart 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KKTC (ed., 2006): KKTC de-facto ve de-jure nüfusunun ilçe, bucak ve cinsiyete göre dağilimi (PDF; 180 kB) p. 4.