Agios Andronikos ( "Saint Andronicus
f Kanakaria; "green village") is a village between
Leonarisso and
Gialousa on the
Karpass Peninsula
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in
Cyprus
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. It is under the ''
de facto'' control of
Northern Cyprus
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.
Prior to 1974, Agios Andronikos had a mixed
Greek- and
Turkish Cypriot
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population. The Greek Cypriots constituted a majority. Though only a small number of the village's Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled 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 Cypriot intercommunal violence, intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots, Greek and Turkish Cy ...
, nearly all of them left for the south of the island by mid-1976.
, Agios Andronikos had a population of 799.
References
Communities in Famagusta District
Populated places in İskele District
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