Zeybekköy / Agios Evstathios
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Zeybekköy / Agios Evstathios Άγιος Ευστάθιος Zeybekköy |
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 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)
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İskele
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| Geographic coordinates : | 35 ° 23 ' N , 34 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 36 (2011) | ||
Zeybekköy or Ayistat or Agios Evstathios (Greek: Άγιος Ευστάθιος) is a village on the Karpas peninsula in the north of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus , which was given the Turkish name Zeybekköy in 1958. The village is 3 km north of Ayios Theodoros / Çayırova . Since at least 1831 it was inhabited almost exclusively by Muslims, who were generally referred to as "Turks" in the censuses from British colonial rule. In 1974 the place and the northern part of the island were occupied by Turkish troops and de facto belongs to the İskele district of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, founded in 1983 .
While Evstathios refers to a saint and Ayistat is the Turkic pronunciation, the place was called Zeybekköy, i.e. village of the Zeybek , from 1958 . This was reminiscent of an irregular militia that had emerged from Ottoman military units in Western Anatolia.
history
In 1831, while the island was still part of the Ottoman Empire , the place had twelve male heads of household (only these were counted). In 1891, under British colonial rule, 88 "Turks" lived there. Even after that the Muslims remained to themselves, only in the years 1901 and 1911 there were five or one “Greeks”. In the censuses this was the blanket term for all Christians. While the village fluctuated between 1891 and 1931 and lost a considerable part of its population - in 1901 there were 67, in 1911 again 76, ten years later 62, another ten years later 46 "Turks" - this number rose to 84 in 1946 and 90 in 1960 and 1973 to 94 inhabitants.
During the civil war-like clashes of 1963 and 1964, many Turks fled there, especially since it belonged to the Turkish enclave of Mehmetçik / Galatia . Some of the villagers moved to the Greek enclave Ayios Theodoros / Çayırova after 1974 . Most of the inhabitants returned after the Turkish invasion, but the village, which in 1978 still had 58 inhabitants, only had 39 inhabitants in 1996 and 31 in 2006. In 2011 there were 36 again, but today almost only old people live in the village.