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[cymart]

very interesting info. about Istinjo and life there in old times!Are there still any of the people in Balikesir-Palekythro?

[polis]

according to this book Istinjo was built up in 1571 by ottamans .....

So the Ottomans arrived in Cyprus in 1571 and the first thing they did was to go to Instinjo (I stille haven't realised what the actual name of the village is) and set up a settlement!!!

What's the average IQ of the readers of these books supposed to be anywhay?

[cymart]

Especially for Lala Mustapha Pashas mob to go there in 1571 as soon as they arrived in Cyprus?I thought they arrived in Famagusta,which is a long way from the Paphos hills,especially with the kind of transport they would have had in those days........

[YFred]

Especially for Lala Mustapha Pashas mob to go there in 1571 as soon as they arrived in Cyprus?I thought they arrived in Famagusta,which is a long way from the Paphos hills,especially with the kind of transport they would have had in those days........

You are obviously not aware of the ingenuity of your average Ottoman Pasha to take ships over mountains never mind people.

[halil]

Melandra was called Beşiktepe .
Beşik means crib in Turkish .
According to Hasan Fehmi book it is called Beşiktepe because village was seetle down between 2 hills and valley looks like bed of crib and since 1960 it was called Beşiktepe by Turkish Cypriots.
Most of the villagers were working in forest and doing farming for their livings.
Population of village was 264 (1973 record).
unlike the other villages there was a telephone line in this village . Telephone line was coming from the forest office .
From the forest villagers brought the water by pipes to their village.There was a road connections between Istinjo ,Zaharga and Meladya .
The road which goes to Zahara was opened in 1959.
Melandra was settled above the 590 meters than sea level .İt was between two hills and some part of the Stavros river branches are passing from the village.
İn the village wheat , broadbeans ,chickpeas ,lentil were growing .Also Crop trees ,olive trees and almond trees werein the village . they did have less water flowing lands in the village . Like Istinjo they were also growing garlic. Villagers had 3000 donums land and lands were valuable in this village.

People of the Melandra are moved to North in 3/9/1975 and most of them are settled down in the villages called Pasakoy(Assia) and Kozanköy (Larnaka Lapitu) .

Well know Turkish Cypriot acedemic person Zeki Beşiktepeli is from Melendra.

[Get Real!]

here is the book called ''Güneyde Kalan Değerlerimiz '' (Our Valuables left behind The South) Writer is Hasan FEHMİ .

lets and see what he was writing about Istinjo (Tabanlı)

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but Istinjo probably was! The ten mud-brick shacks of Istinjo must be the greatest Ottoman civil engineering project ever undertaken on the island…

[halil]

Sarama (kuşluca)
In this village they were growing vegatables . For their vegetables they were getting tne water from the stavros tis psokas river. Again this village was famous for her garlic growing .
There was a fruit trees like pear ,palm and walnut .....
also there was a farming in this village . there was also vineyards .some of the villagers were working at fores area also some of them were emigrating to big cities to find better lifes .
In 1973 , 121 people were living in Samara .
At 3/9/1975 they also moved to North and most of them settled down in the village called Sisklipos (Akçiçek)

Tremithousa (Tremitusa , uzunmeşe)
There was a fountain flow in this willage . its been used for drinking and watering for their gardens. There was a lemon and orange growing in this village also some vineyards .For living villagers were doing farming in this village.
104 people were living in this place according to 1973 records. Most of them also settled down in Kozanköy now .

In Anadiou (Görmeli, Anadyu) 264 people were living (1973 ) .
most of them were farmers also . Some of them were working at British bases too.
Lots of rain , rains to this village .There was a crop ,almond olive trees and vine yards in Anadyu.

Anadyu ,Istinjo ,Meladya ,Melandra ,Zahargo ,Tremetsu ,Evratu and Pelatusa were forming bigest Turkish Cypriot enclave area .

People of Anadiou (anadyu) are settled in Incirli (Makrasyka) in North.

[halil]

from above book u can find informations about TC villages left in South.

[Nikitas]

Birkibrisli wrote about his village, Istinjo. As far as I recall the village name comes from "is tin Kio" which was corrupted (linguistically speaking, please no funny comments!) to Istinjo, pretty much the same way that 'is tin poli" became Istanbul.

The origin of the name Kios (nominative case, Kio is accusative case) is a Greek name and can be found in other areas of Greek habitation like Asia Minor and mainland Greece.

Another point to ponder is the tendency of Ottomans to settle lowlands rather than highlands. The phenomenon is evident in Greece and other Balkan countries where historically the Ottomans took over lowlands rather than highlands. It is a natural result of the quality and productivity of the land. The most productive land was the lowland area. Which makes the idea of establishing mountain villages in Cyprus in 1571 somewhat unlikely.

It is then probable that Istinjo was an established village in 1571 and was called Kios and the Turkish overlay came later. Can we assume that the villagers became Linovamvakoi?

[adrian lee]

You may like to know of my experiences in Melandra in 1975 as i was a soldier with the United Nations who was stationed there from April until June of 1975 when Melandra was still inhabited by the Turkish community.We had the sad task of removing these unfortunate and desperately poor people from their homes and taking them in convoys to Nicosia.It was the worst thing that i have ever done as i had built up friendly relations with the whole village and i was very upset to say goodbye to everyone.If you would like to know more about the life and community of Melandra please e-mail or let me know and i would be glad to correspond.I also have a few snaps taken at the time in Melandra.Kind regards to you and peace to the world. Adrian Lee