by halil » Wed May 20, 2009 10:42 am
Table 1.5 Land ownership in donums for the post-1974 territories based on 1964 figures by the Greek Cypriot Department of Lands and Surveys and the Planning Bureau. (Land in the SBAs not included. ‘Greek Cypriot’ includes Armenian Cypriots and Maronite Cypriots.)
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Area North
Greek Cypriot:1,463,382 (60.60%)
Turkish Cypriot:393,791(16.31%)
Non-Cypriot:6,767(0.28%)
Public:551,150(22.82%)
Total:2,415,090(100%)
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Area Buffer Zone:
GC:112,326 (62.21%)
TC:25,362(14.05%)
Non-Cypriot:2,494(1.38%)
Public:40,384(22.37%)
Total:180,566(100%)
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Area South:
GC:2,543,021 (61.56%)
TC:413,177(10.00%)
Non-Cypriot:10,011 (0.24%)
Public:1,165,029(28.2%)
Total:4,131,238(100%)
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Whole island
GC:4,118,729 (61.23%)
TC:832,330(12.37%)
Non-Cypriot:19,272 (0.29%)
Public:1,756,563(26.11%)
Total:6,726,894(100%)
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Table 1.6 Percentages of privately owned land in the post-1974 territories based on 1964 figures by the Greek Cypriot Department of Lands and Surveys and the Planning Bureau. (Land in the SBAs not included. ‘Greek Cypriot’ includes Armenian Cypriots and Maronite
Cypriots.
Area North
GC:78.5%
TC:21.1%
Non-Cypriot:0.4
Buffer Zone:
GC:80.1%
TC:18.1%
Non-Cypriot:1.8%
Area South:
GC:85.7%
TC:13.9%
Non-Cypriot:0.3%
Whole island:
GC:82.9%
TC:16.7%
Non-Cypriot:0.4%
According to Greek Cypriot estimates (Tables 1.5 and 1.6), 1,463,382 donums of land in the north belong to Greek Cypriots. This corresponds to 60.6% of the total land and 78.5% of all privately owned land in the north.
Tables 1.7 and 1.8 below give the same type of data as in Tables 1.5 and 1.6, but on the basis of Turkish Cypriot estimates, and include the properties claimed to have been ‘snatched’ from the Evkaf. Here the figures include the SBAs. As above, the shaded areas represent the privately owned lands affected by the property dispute, that is, lands outside the control of the community from which the owners (including the Church in the case of the Greek Cypriot community and the Evkaf in the case of the Turkish Cypriot community) come.
Later on Tables 1.7 and 1.8 will come :