Androlykou ( gr, Ανδρολύκου, tr, Gündoğdu) is a Turkish Cypriot village in the

Paphos District Paphos District ( el, Επαρχία Πάφου, tr, Baf kazası) is one of the six districts of Cyprus and it is situated in the western part of Cyprus. Its main town and Capital (political), capital is Paphos. The entire district is controlle ...

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 geo ...

, located 5 km southwest of

Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town at the north-west end of the island of Cyprus, at the centre of Chrysochous Bay, and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula nature ...

. It is currently mostly empty, but before invasion it had a population of 498.PRIO Cyprus web site http://www.prio-cyprus-displacement.net/default.asp?id=480 retrieved Sept 2018 At the first British census in 1881 it had a population of 255. In October 1974 most men of fighting age were arrested and sent to the Geroskipou POW camp, while other villagers left secretly to the Turkish controlled area. 248 people remaining in the village were escorted by UNFICYP in August 1975 to the Turkish sector. Apart from one Turkish Cypriot married to a Greek Cypriot woman, the whole village was evacuated. They were mainly resettled in

Myrtou Myrtou ( gr, Μύρτου, tr, Çamlıbel) is a town in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus, north of the city of Morphou. It is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus. Name origin There are several traditions as to how the village got ...

Topography

Androlykou or Androlikou is located 310 m above sea level.

Transportation

The village of Androlykou is situated about 8 kilometers southeast of

and almost 9 kilometers south of the port of Latsiou and is within short distance from the Neo Chorio Paphou of the homonymous province of Cyprus.

Nearby

Androlíkou, Paphos district is south of Poulliokampos and northwest of Laomilia.

References

{{Paphos District Communities in Paphos District