Kofinou
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Kofinou (; or ) is a village located in the Larnaca District of Cyprus. It is situated where the roads from Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol trisected, prior to the by-pass built in the 1990s.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- village
- Settlement.name
- Kofinou
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Church of Panagia Kofinou (01).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Panagia Kofinou
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cyprus
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- y
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Cyprus
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Larnaca District
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_total
- 1312
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Part of
- Larnaca District
- Official name
- Κοφίνου Κύπρου
- Country
- Cyprus
- Located in
- Larnaca District
- Population
- 1309
- Area
- 27.8243
- Elevation
- 150
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Kato Lefkara
- Image
- Church of Panagia Kofinou (08).jpg
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- Commons category
- Kofinou
- postal code
- 7735
- native label
- Κοφίνου Κύπρου
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Kofinou (; or ) is a village located in the Larnaca District of Cyprus. It is situated where the roads from Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol trisected, prior to the by-pass built in the 1990s.
==History== Cyprus was invaded and conquered by Ottoman Turkey in 1570-1 A.D. At that time a small contingent of Turkish forces was stationed there. Their descendants lived in relative peace with the local Greek and Christian population for many years. In the 1950s during the uprising by Greek Cypriots to overthrow British Empire rule the relationship between the Greek and Turkish population worsened and the Greeks left but were replaced by Turkish Cypriots from another village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kofinou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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