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Kormakitis (Cypriot Arabic: Kurmajit; Greek: Κορμακίτης, Kormakítis; Turkish: Kormacit or Koruçam) is a small village in Cyprus. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. Kormakitis is one of four traditionally Maronite villages in Cyprus, the other three being Asomatos, Agia Marina and Karpaseia. [3]
This is a list of settlements in Cyprus. The English name is indicated first, followed by the Greek and Turkish names, in turn followed by any former names, including ones used in antiquity. Note that even though, prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus , Turkish names existed for some villages/towns, due to political reasons, most of the ...
West Village resident Jane Jacobs led an effort to stop that development in favor of the West Village Houses which were smaller-scale and preserved existing structures. [2] Perkins and Will designed the buildings. The effort to build the houses was finally approved in 1969, higher costs required a second approval in 1972 and then construction ...
The village proper is located to the west of the church, suggesting the settlement has shifted or that the church was originally surrounded by its own properties. The stone houses in the village retain the vernacular Gothic elements sometimes found in the traditional domestic buildings of Cyprus; according to Gunnis, the oldest of them dates to ...
The village, like all the wine-producing villages of the region, has gone through great fluctuations of the population. In 1881, the inhabitants of the village numbered 995, increasing to 1,119 in 1891, and to 1,301 in 1911. In 1921, the inhabitants were reduced to 1,279, increasing again to 1,397 in 1946.
Varosha, Cyprus: Before In the 1960s and early 1970s, celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Brigitte Bardot frequented the luxurious seaside resorts of this once-popular ...
Davlos (Greek: Δαυλός, Turkish: Kaplıca) is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the northern coast, east of Kyrenia, near Kantara Castle. It is under de facto control of Northern Cyprus, forming part of its İskele District.
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