Angolemi

Angolemi
Αγγολεμι (Greek) Taşpınar (Turkish)
A view from Angolemi
Angolemi Location in Cyprus
Coordinates: 35°7′4″N 32°56′51″E / 35.11778°N 32.9475°E / 35.11778; 32.9475Coordinates: 35°7′4″N 32°56′51″E / 35.11778°N 32.9475°E / 35.11778; 32.9475
Country	de jure  Cyprus de facto  Northern Cyprus
District	de jure Nicosia District de facto Güzelyurt District
Municipality
Elevation	597 ft (182 m)
Population (2006)[1]
• Total	212
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Angolemi (Greek: Αγγολεμι, Turkish: Taşpınar), is a village in Nicosia District, southwest of Morphou. It is under the control of the Güzelyurt District of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Etymology

The village is commonly known as Angolem among local people.

According to a suggestion, the name Angolemi is given by the Lusignans, after the town of Angoulême in France.^[2][3] Some sources say that a knight from Angoulême lived in the village in the Middle Ages.^[4]

Another suggestion says that the name is derived from the former Patriarch of Antioch, Pierre d'Angouleme.^[5][6]

Architecture

The houses in the village are mainly made of adobe, while concrete ones are also present. The village has developed to the fields outside the village since early 2000s.^[3][7]

Lots of houses are neglected and abandoned because of migration to Nicosia. There are unused vehicles in the streets.^[3]

Demographics

The first information about the population of the village is from the time of Mahmud II.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 2006 Census
2. ^ Charles Fraser Beckingham (1983). Between Islam and Christendom: travellers, facts, and legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, p. 356, Variorum Reprints. ISBN 978-0-86078-123-3.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Lüzinyanlardan beri var olan bir köy: Taşpınar (Angolem) (A village which exists since the time of Lusingnans: Taşpınar (Kıbrıs)
4. ^ Gunnis, Rupert (1956). Historic Cyprus: a guide to its towns and villages, monasteries and castles. Methuen.
5. ^ Ahmet C. Gazioğlu (1994). Kıbrıs'ta Türkler, 1570-1878: 308 yıllık Türk dönemine yeni bir bakış, p. 116, Kıbrıs Araştırma ve Yayın Merkezi.
6. ^ Nazım Beratlı (1993). Kıbrıslı Türklerin tarihi, p. 156, Galeri Kültür yayınları.
7. ^ Angolemi at Google Earth
8. ^ ^{a b} "Lefke Kasabası'nın Demografik ve Ekonomik Yapısı" (in Turkish). www.kibris.net. http://www.kibris.net/kktc/kurumlar/lefkectd/lefke_statistik.htm. Retrieved February 2, 2010. 
9. ^ "Κυπροσ - Cyprus (612 villages, 9251,47 Km²)". agrino.org. http://agrino.org/alexneo/villages.pdf. Retrieved May 21, 2011. 
10. ^ "Lefke Tarihinden bir kesit: 1831 Nüfus Sayımı - Osmanlı Egemenliğinde Lefke Kazası" (in Turkish). www.kibris.net. http://www.kibris.net/kktc/kurumlar/lefkectd/sgalip.htm. Retrieved February 3, 2010.