Melanarga / Adaçay
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Melanarga Μελαναργα Adaçay |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 31 ' N , 34 ° 12' E | ||
| Residents : | 100 (2011) | ||
Melanarga ( Greek Μελαναργα , Turkish Adaçay ) is a village on the Karpas peninsula in eastern Cyprus, 3 km south of Yialousa / Yeni Erenköy ; the meaning of the Greek name is unclear, the word part agra could go back to the word for 'wild'. The Cypriot Turks changed the name to Adaçay in 1975, which means 'garden sage'. In 2011 the place had 100 inhabitants.
history
In the Ottoman census of 1831, the 19 Greeks formed the majority in the village, the Muslims a strong minority of 12 heads of household. The censuses under British colonial rule found 53 and 54 Turks in the village in 1891 and 1901, respectively, while the number of Greeks rose from 75 to 94. The number of Turks fell to 37 by 1911, only to recover to 54 by 1946 (1921: 39; 1931: 41). The number of Greeks, on the other hand, rose to 124 by 1911, ten years later to 141, by 1931 to 164, and in 1946 it peaked at 195. Thus between 1891 and 1946 the proportion of Turks decreased from 41 to 21.6%.
In 1958, all Turks fled from the militant nationalists of EOKA to the neighboring villages and to Famagusta , where they stayed until 1974. But even after that, only one family wanted to return.
About a third of the Greeks fled from the approaching Turkish troops in the summer of 1974. 108 of them stayed until October 1975. In December 1976 only four Greeks lived in the village, in December 1977 none were left.
After all, the village had 64 inhabitants again in 1978. Settlers from the area around Kahramanmaraş and Muş in eastern Turkey settled in the village. In 2006 the village, which has been called Adaçay since 1975, had 88 inhabitants, five years later 100.
The church of Agios Polychronios was converted into a mosque between 2001 and 2007 and has thus been well preserved.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı , August 6, 2013.
- ^ Samuel Andrew Hardy: Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus , Diss., University of Sussex, 2010, p. 96 f. ( online , PDF).