Agios Ermolaos

Village in Kyrenia District, Cyprus

(de jure)

Cyprus • DistrictKyrenia DistrictCountry (de facto)

Northern Cyprus^[1] • DistrictGirne DistrictPopulation

(2011)^[2]

• Total368Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Agios Ermolaos (Greek: Άγιος Ερμόλαος, Turkish: Şirinevler) is a village in Cyprus, 5 km east of Kontemenos. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus.

All of the Agios Ermolaos Greek Cypriots fled before the Turkish army and were displaced as a consequence of the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974.^[3] Formerly enclaved, displaced Turkish Cypriots from the south of the island and Turks from mainland Turkey subsequently moved to this village and it was named Şirinevler in Turkish in 1975.

References

^ In 1983, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus unilaterally declared independence from the Republic of Cyprus. The de facto state is not recognised by any UN state except Turkey.
^ KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı [TRNC 2011 Population and Housing Census] (PDF), TRNC State Planning Organization, 6 August 2013, archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2013
^ Agios Ermolaos PRIO Cyprus Centre