Alektora
Sign in to saveAlektora (), also known as Gökağaç (from Turkish), is a village in the Limassol District of Cyprus. It was established in the first millennium by residents of nearby villages and gradually Turkified and Islamicised during the rule of the Ottomans. It was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the population exchanges that occurred thereafter. The village now has a small community of Greek Cypriots.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.official_name
- Alektora
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- el
- Settlement.other_name
- Gökağaç
- Settlement.native_name
- Αλέκτορα
- Settlement.image_skyline
- View of Alektora 06.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cyprus
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- y
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Cyprus
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Limassol District
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 64
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
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Alektora (), also known as Gökağaç (from Turkish), is a village in the Limassol District of Cyprus. It was established in the first millennium by residents of nearby villages and gradually Turkified and Islamicised during the rule of the Ottomans. It was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the population exchanges that occurred thereafter. The village now has a small community of Greek Cypriots.
== Etymology == Alektora comes from the Greek word alektor (), meaning rooster. In 1958, the Turkish Cypriot residents of the village adopted the alternative Turkish name , meaning "tree of heaven".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alektora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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