Galinoporni Explained

Galinoporni
Pushpin Map:Cyprus
Coordinates:35.5225°N 34.3019°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Cyprus
Subdivision Type1: • District
Subdivision Name1:Famagusta District
Subdivision Type2:Country
Subdivision Type3: • District
Subdivision Name3:İskele District
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:333
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto

Galinoporni (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γαληνόπορνη; Turkish: Kaleburnu) is a 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 has always been exclusively populated by Turkish Cypriots.[2] It has a permanent population but is also inhabited in the summer months by villagers who emigrated to the United Kingdom as a result of the Cyprus Dispute.Cypriot Turkish is the most commonly spoken dialect, though most elderly inhabitants can speak and understand both Turkish and Greek, with some speaking Greek as a first language.[3]

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.[4] In Nitovikla there is a fortress dating back to 1500 BC, whose citadel has been erected in the style of the Hittitian fortress of Hattusa in Anatolia.[4] Moreover, in Avtepe there is an important group of caves.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı . TRNC 2011 Population and Housing Census . TRNC State Planning Organization . 6 August 2013 . tr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131106001538/http://www.devplan.org/Nufus-2011/nufus%20ikinci_.pdf . 2013-11-06 .
  2. Web site: Galinoporni . PRIO Cyprus Centre . 11 October 2021.
  3. News: Stephanie Jacobs. 18 May 2020. The miracle of Galinoporni, the Turks who spoke Cypriot Greek as a first language. Neos Kosmos. 8 October 2021. When the Ottomans came to the village in the 16th century, some of the men took Cypriot girls as their wives, but the girls only spoke Cypriot Greek; as such, their children learned Cypriot Greek. They were Muslims (following the religion of their fathers) but over many generations, they only spoke Cypriot Greek. This was not uncommon in Cyprus; there were numerous ‘Turkish Cypriot’ villages whose Muslim population spoke no Cypriot Turkish at all. Indeed, a number of travellers, and the Reports of Censuses conducted by Britain, described several such villages..
  4. Book: Zypern. 2009. Michael Müller. 9783899534184. Erlangen. 379–81. German. Braun. Ralph-Raymond.