Nisou ( gr, Νήσου, tr, Dizdarköy) is a village in the

Nicosia District Nicosia District ( Greek: Eπαρχία Λευκωσίας) is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is the island country's capital city, Nicosia. The TRNC-controlled northern part of the district is the Lefkoşa District of the ...

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 ...

, just north of Pera Chorio and it is about 15 kilometres from the capital. It is built at the north bank of the

Yialia Gialia ( el, Γιαλιά, tr, Yayla) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 11 km northeast of Polis Chrysochous. Prior to 1974, the village was inhabited by Turkish Cypriots. Gialia is situated in between Argaka and Agia ...

River. The old road of Nicosia-Limassol goes through the village, while the new road comes from northwest of the village. In the older years, the village resembled a small island since it was surrounded by the Yialia River. The river would come from the mountains of Machera and would split at the Nisou area into two parts which would join again towards the East (in the Dali area). That is how it got its name Nisos or Nisou. Nisou had historically been a mixed village, with 366 Greek Cypriots and 108 Turkish Cypriots recorded in the census of 1960. With the outbreak of intercommunal violence in 1963, the Turkish Cypriot population fled to the nearby Turkish Cypriot population centres of

Louroujina Louroujina ( []; , previously or ) is a village in Geography of Cyprus, Cyprus, located within the salient (geography), salient that marks the southernmost extent of Northern Cyprus. It was one of the largest Turkish Cypriot villages in Cyprus be ...

and

Goşşi Goşşi or Goshi ( el, (η) Κόση, (ē) Cóšē []; tr, Goşşi or ) is an abandoned village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, about 15 km north-west of Larnaca. It was originally inhabited exclusively by Turkish Cypriots. Nearly all of ...

, and their houses were destroyed. By December 1970, the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus had repaired 30 of these houses at a cost o £7,000, but the displaced Turkish Cypriots did not return. All of these villagers were then resettled to various areas of

Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, isl ...

after the 1974 conflict, with the highest number being in

Argaki Argaki ( el, Αργάκι, ; tr, Akçay) is a village in Cyprus, southeast of the city of Morphou. ''De facto'', it is under the control of Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern ...

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