Softades
Encyclopedia
Softades is a village in the Larnaca District
of Cyprus
, located 3 km west of Kiti
. Prior to 1974, the village was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots
.
Larnaca District
Larnaca District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is Larnaca. A small part of the district was occupied by the Turkish army in 1974....
of Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
, located 3 km west of Kiti
Kiti
Kiti is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, located 11 km southwest of Larnaca and is built at an average altitude of 20 meters above sea level.The village receives an average annual rainfall that ranges around 360 millimetres...
. Prior to 1974, the village was inhabited almost exclusively by Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots are the ethnic Turks and members of the Turkish-speaking ethnolinguistic community of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, whose Ottoman Turkish forbears colonised the island in 1571...
.