Kyra ( el, Κυρά; tr, Mevlevi) is a village located in the
Nicosia District of
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 ...
, 6 km east of
Morphou
Morphou ( el, Μόρφου; tr, Omorfo or ) is a town in the northwestern part of Cyprus, under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus. It is the administrative center of the Güzelyurt District of Northern Cyprus. Having been a predominan ...
. ''
De facto
''De facto'' ( ; , "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with ''de jure'' ("by la ...
'', it is under the control of
Northern Cyprus.
Originally inhabited by
Greek Cypriots
Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνοκύπριοι, Ellinokýprioi, tr, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2011 census, 659,115 ...
, since the
Turkish invasion in 1974, the village has been solely inhabited by Turks.
[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:HFPwLt8LC_AJ:www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/f4f30ed4b0ee47f5c1256af4003755db/%24FILE/G0115564.pdf+Fterycha&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjJWaRiEGn3eIn6YUUnIhuA6FmNv2q_uUpAFejCqfJngD6TmPkNyTFZ7lACAEWg4f823_M1QrgWdPN6j2kJZo7iVpwusSqFxL2I-1ee2GXe8hCBkxduvWQHg1kpf_FmdB2_WCFC&sig=AHIEtbQ8XjiXdelgW7MpJxFm8XIM5DM69Q ] The Church of Panagia is used by the Turkish army as a depot.
References
Communities in Nicosia District
Populated places in Güzelyurt District
Greek Cypriot villages depopulated during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
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