Trikomo / İskele
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İskele Τρίκωμο / Trikomo İskele / Yeni İskele |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 17 ′ N , 33 ° 53 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 1948 (2011) | ||
| Mayor : | Hasan Sadıkoğlu | ||
İskele , Greek Τρίκωμο Trikomo , Turkish İskele or Yeni İskele , is a town with 7906 inhabitants (2011) in the district of İskele in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus . Formally it belongs to the Republic of Cyprus and its Famagusta district .
The Turkish name “İskele” (German “ ship landing stage ” from Greek Σκάλα Skala , with an origin from Italian ) or “Yeni İskele” (“New İskele”) reminds of the district of the same name in Larnaka in the Greek part of the country, from the Cyprus Turks in 1975 in the Cyprus conflict had to flee, who then settled in İskele.
history
In 1831 the Ottoman government carried out a census of heads of households, in which 37 adult men were considered Turks and 164 Greeks. Shortly thereafter, the place became the center of one of the uprisings that shook Ottoman Cyprus at the time. In July 1833 there was the "monk's revolt" on the Karpas. Its leader was a Joannikios who had also participated in the uprising in Greece and who had returned to Cyprus in 1828. After an argument with a neighbor, he evaded arrest by taking the protection of French dragoman Jean Francois Alexiano Guillois . When two uprisings broke out in Cyprus in 1833, he took the opportunity and agreed with the likewise rebellious “Imam”, who ruled Paphos for three months , in order to dare to attack the capital. On July 14, 1833, he sailed to Bogaz with perhaps 40 Albanians. Then he set up his headquarters in Trikomo. He promised the Greeks of the Karpas the support of France, but soon he had to flee to Larnaka with 16 Albanians in the hope of finding shelter in a consulate. Trikomo was deserted after the uprising.
In 1891 the British colonial administration again counted 1,081 inhabitants, of whom 1,044 were Greek and only 37 were Turks. While the number of Greeks continued to rise (1901: 1247, 1911: 1492, 1921: 1690), the number of Cypriot Turks continued to decline, of which only nine lived in the village in 1921. In 1946 the place grew to 2087 inhabitants, in 1960 there were 2195. Only seven Turks lived in Trikomo. A year before the Turkish army marched in in 1974, Trikomo had 2325 inhabitants, the last of the Turks having left the place.
In 1978 the now Turkish town had 1669 inhabitants, in 1996 there were already 2814 and in 2006 3657.
Attractions
- Agios Iakovos (Holy Jacob) from the 15th century is a cross-domed church with porcelain tiles, which is otherwise only found in Portuguese churches. It is one of the smallest churches in Cyprus.
- The church of Panagía Theotókos (All Holy Mother of God) from the 12th century is only 300 m away from Agios-Iakovos. The furnishings include a Christ Pantocrator in the dome as an outstanding Cypriot church decoration in the early Comnenian style and depictions of the life of Mary.
Personalities
- Georgios Grivas (born May 23, 1898 in Trikomo, † January 27, 1974 in Limassol), Cypriot advocate of Enosis and organizer of the anti-colonialist struggle against the British ( EOKA ).
Web links
- İskele City Council website (in Turkish)