roseandchan wrote:so according to the u.n. greek cypriots own 90% of the land?
R&S. I think you'll find the figure is nearer 92%. I'm pretty sure this figure includes lands held by the Church, traditionally a very large land owner in all parts of CY.
This may seem a little paradoxical to outsiders given the relative closeness of Turkey to the north but it is a part of the CY tragedy that the north had a disproportionate number of people of gr. ethnicity.
My understanding is that in general our northern siblings lived in the agricultural and south facing vine growing villages of some parts of the south and in parts of Nic and the other cities. Large northern villages like Lysi, Morphou, Akanthou, Agios Amvrosios, Lefkoniko, Rizokarpaso, Gerolakos, Zodia, Lapithos and many others ( no offence if I've missed anyone's old village out ) had exclusively gr populations, 100% of whom took refuge in the south. 90% of Kyrenia's (which was the most gr of CY's cities) inhabitants took similar refuge and of course the occupied part of Famagusta where 10,000's crossed a few short yards to the safety of the Eastern SBA in '74.