Rizokarpaso / Dipkarpaz
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Rizokarpaso / Dipkarpaz Ριζοκάρπασο / Rizokarpaso Dipkarpaz |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 36 ' N , 34 ° 23' E | ||
| Residents : | 2349 (2011) | ||
| Mayor : | Suphi Coşkun | ||
Rizokarpaso ( Greek Ριζοκάρπασο ) or Dipkarpaz is a city in the north of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with about 5500 inhabitants. It is located on the Karpas peninsula in the far northeast of Cyprus .
Before 1974 the city was almost exclusively inhabited by Cypriot Greeks, today Rizokarpaso is one of the few enclaves in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in which Cypriot Greeks still live. The approximately 250 Greek Cypriots are still supplied with food by troops of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ) . Numerous Turkish families have resettled. The Greek Cypriot minority has been running a small school in Rizokarpaso / Dipkarpaz for several years.
In the Annan Plan , Rizokarpaso / Dipkarpaz was explicitly named as one of those places to which an unrestricted return of the Greek Cypriot population should be made possible, although the area should remain under Turkish Cypriot administration.
history
With Rizokarpaso-Sylla existed in the 2nd millennium BC. A Bronze Age fortress.
The previous settlement of Rizokarpasos was the ancient city of Karpasia . An inscription by Phanocles, son of Nikolaos, attests to their status as a polis .
During the Turkish conquest of northern Cyprus, the residents of Ayia Irini near Kyrenia were brought to Rizokarpaso against their will.
economy
Until the 20th century, the silk culture was the main trade of the residents. The raw silk was spun on site and woven into fabrics. After the decline of sericulture, many farmers switched to growing oriental-type tobacco. Special scales were created to dry the tobacco leaves. Within a few years the village developed into the center of Cypriot tobacco cultivation and remained so until 1974. Today, tobacco is cultivated in comparatively small quantities for export to Turkey. Intensive vegetable cultivation is predominant and in the surrounding area cereals are grown on the red-brown Karpas soil ( Terra Rossa ). The fruit of the carob tree is also harvested.
Attractions
Two medieval churches from the time of the Lusignans are particularly worth seeing . There are numerous beautiful beaches (Golden Beach) in the area.
Not far from the city are the ruins of the church of Agios Philon (Ayfilon) and an ancient settlement, which is usually identified with Aphrodision .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edgar Peltenburg: Nitovikla and Tell el-Burak: Cypriot mid-second millennium BC forts in a Levantine context , pp. 145–157, here: pp. 145 f.
- ^ TB Mitford, K. Nikolaou: An Inscription from Karpasia in Cyprus . In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 77/2, 1957, 313-314.
- ↑ United Nations. Security Council (Ed.): Documents Officiels , Volume 32, 1977, p. 3.