Potamia (Cyprus)
Potamia or Dereliköy in Turkish is a village in the Republic of Cyprus in the Nicosia district and was the site of a royal castle during the Frankish rule ( Kingdom of Cyprus ). Before the Turkish invasion, the population consisted of Cypriot Turks and Cypriot Greeks, but most of the Turks have now fled to the north.
Today Dereliköy / Potamia is one of the few villages in Cyprus where Greeks and Turks live peacefully together. That is why it is also called the "Village of Reconciliation".
In 1521 Efgenios Singriticus, a Greek nobleman, at that time Ambassador Nicosia in Venice , bought the village for more than 5000 ducats . The village was an allodium , but the wheat produced still had to be transported to Venice .
Potamia is also the location of an estate of the last Queen of Cyprus, Armenia and Jerusalem, Caterina Cornaro, which has been partially preserved from the 14th century until today . In October 2011, the Antiques Office of the Republic of Cyprus announced that it would restore the building and turn it into a cultural center. Today (2017) the building continues to fall into disrepair. Looting is known.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benjamin Arbel , Greek Magnates in Venetian Cyprus: The Case of the Synglitico Family. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 49, 1995 (Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries), 326
- ↑ Demetra Molyva: Palace of Cyprus's last queen to be restored in: The Cyprus Weekly, October 7, 2011
- ^ Louis Palma Di Cesnola : Cyprus. Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples , London 1877.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 3 ' N , 33 ° 27' E