Agia Marina ( el, Αγία Μαρίνα (Σκυλλούρας); tr, Gürpınar) is a village in
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...
, situated 24 km west of
Nicosia. It takes its name from
Marina the Monk
Marina, distinguished as Marina the Monk and also known as Marinos, Pelagia and Mary of Alexandria ( cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲛⲁ ⲛ̅ⲁⲥⲕⲏⲧⲏⲥ), was a Christian saint from part of Asian Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, genera ...
, the Christian saint of
Byzantine Syria
Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of Armenia Tigranes the Great.
Following the partition of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea into tetr ...
.
[ '']De facto
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'', Agia Marina is under the control of Northern Cyprus.
History
By 1963, Agia Marina had a mixed population that reportedly comprised 400 Maronites and 65 Turkish Cypriot
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,0 ...
s.[Turkish military begin to clear out of Ayia Marina]
by Tahsin Eroglu, ''Cyprus Mail
The ''Cyprus Mail'' is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. Established in 1945, it is published every day except Monday, and most of the local articles are available on its website.
History
With the demise of the '' ...
'', 24 March 2017 In January 1964, during the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64
Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the ...
, the Turkish Cypriots of Agia Marina fled to the turkish enclave of Nicosia.[ During the ]Turkish invasion of Cyprus
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greek junta-s ...
, all Maronites moved to the south of the island and the name of the village was changed to Gürpınar, meaning “strong, powerful spring” in Turkish.[ From 1974 onwards, Agia Marina has been used as a ]Turkish military
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camp,Kemal Atatürk Kemal may refer to:
;People
* Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey
* Kemal (name), a common Turkish name
;Places
* Kemalpaşa, İzmir Province, Turkey
* Mustafakemalpaşa, Bursa Province, Turkey
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, the founder of modern Turkey, has been erected. In 2016, the re-construction of the Gürpınar mosque, damaged in the 1953 earthquake, began.[
By March 2017, as the Turkish Cypriot ''Yeniduzen'' newspaper reported, the Turkish Army began moving out of the village, ostensibly with the purpose of allowing former residents to move in, though no specific timetable for resettlement was given.][ The chairman of the "Gurpinar (Ayia Marina) solidarity society" Mehmet Hoca stated that "the decision was taken three and a half years ago by the Turkish Cypriot authorities" in order to enable the villagers to "live together."][
]
Festivities
A Mushroom
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Fest is organised regularly in the village.Karma Köy Gürpınar’da Mantar Festivali
("Mushroom Festival in Karma Village Gürpınar"), ''Bayrak'', 22 January 2017 (in Turkish)
References
External links
Greek Cypriot website of Agia Marina
(in Greek
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)
Maronite communities
Communities in Nicosia District
Populated places in Lefkoşa District
Greek enclaves in Northern Cyprus
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