Aplanta ( el, Απλάντα; tr, Aplanda) is an abandoned village in the
Larnaca District of
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...
, located 4 km south of
Anglisides. Aplanta was inhabited exclusively by
Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,0 ...
; in 1960, they numbered 55. Due to the
Cyprus crisis of 1963–64
Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the ...
they fled to
Kivisili in December 1963. After the
1974 Turkish invasion and subsequent partition of the island, most moved to
Limnia.
References
Communities in Larnaca District
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