Lefgios / Lefke

Lefka Lefgios Lefke
Basic data
State :	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
District :	Lefke
Geographic coordinates :	35 ° 7 '  N , 32 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 7 '  N , 32 ° 51'  E
Residents :	3009 (2011)
Mayor :	Aziz Kaya

Lefke or Λεύκα Lefka , Greek Lefgios , is the capital of the Lefke district in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus . The place is in the bay of Morfou (today Güzelyurt).

Since the late 16th century, when Ottoman farmers and craftsmen settled in Cyprus, Lefke and the surrounding area have been predominantly Turkish settlement areas. In the town there are many traditional Ottoman town houses with their pronounced horizontal lines, the protruding tiled roof, a cantilevered upper floor and an enclosed, tree-lined inner courtyard.

The city grew from the nearby copper mines to prosperity. While only 193 Orthodox lived there in 1901, the number of Christians jumped to 1067 as a result of the mining industry by 1946, only to drop to 108 by 1960. Only 34 of them were Greeks left. During the civil war, 888 Turkish refugees were counted here in 1964.

education

The European University of Lefke, founded in 1990, is located in Lefke . Your research and teaching operations give the one-sided agriculturally structured area a second pillar.

Attractions

The grave of the late Ottoman admiral in 1839, after the Piri Osman-Pasha - Mosque was named, is one of the few remaining examples of sophisticated Ottoman stone carving in Cyprus.

In Ataturkstraße there are Georgian facades, elaborate buildings from the time of King George V , from the time when Lefke made a profit from the booming copper ore mining. One of the “Kypro-Georgian style” buildings is now a dormitory for university students. Lefke is the orthodox titular bishopric of Aachen- based Greek Orthodox Bishop Evmenios von Lefke .

Remarks

1. ↑ Emile Y. Kolodny: Une comunauté insulaire en Méditerranée orinentale: les Turcs de Chypre , in: Revue de géographie de Lyon Année 46.1 (1971) 5-56, here: p. 36.