Galinoporni

Galinoporni

View of the Turkish Cypriot village of Galinoporni/Kaleburnu in 2016
Galinoporni
Coordinates: 35°31′21″N 34°18′07″E / 35.52250°N 34.30194°E / 35.52250; 34.30194Coordinates: 35°31′21″N 34°18′07″E / 35.52250°N 34.30194°E / 35.52250; 34.30194
Country  Cyprus
  District Famagusta District
Country (controlled by)  Northern Cyprus
  District İskele District
Population (2011)[1]
  Total 333

Galinoporni (Greek: Γαληνόπορνη; Turkish: Kaleburnu) is a Turkish Cypriot village in Cyprus, located on the southern side of the Karpas Peninsula. Galinoporni is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. As of 2011, it had a population of 333. The village is attended in the summer months by wealthy Turkish Cypriots, who expatriated in England and let build in Kaleburnu their summer residences.[2] Although the inhabitants' religion is Islam, the population's language was Greek, and only after 1974 Turkish could gradually take foot among the villagers.[2]

The surroundings of the village host two bronze age sites: in Kraltepe the remains of a palace have been excavated, whose dwellers had trade contacts with the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea around 1200 BC.[2] In Nitovikla there is a fortress dating back to 1500 BC, whose citadel has been erected in the style of the Hittitian fortress of Boğazköy in Anatolia.[2] Moreover, in Avtepe there is an important group of caves, which host architectonic remains.[2]

References

  1. "KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı" [TRNC 2011 Population and Housing Census] (PDF) (in Turkish). TRNC State Planning Organization. 6 August 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Braun, Ralph-Raymond (2009). Zypern (in German). Erlangen: Michael Müller. p. 379-81. ISBN 9783899534184.


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