Maratha (Greek: Μαράθα, Turkish: Muratağa) is a small village located in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, 7 km south of Lefkoniko. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus.
Maratha | |
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village | |
Μαράθα (Greek) Muratağa (Turkish) | |
Coordinates: 35°12′42″N 33°46′34″E / 35.21167°N 33.77611°E | |
Country (de jure) | Cyprus |
• District | Famagusta District |
Country (de facto) | Northern Cyprus[1] |
• District | Gazimağusa District |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The village was recorded as early as the early 13th century in papal documents.[2]
In 1974 a mass-grave containing the bodies of more than 80 murdered Turkish-Cypriots men, women and children was found here. These were the people who were massacred by the EOKA-B in the Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ In 1983, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus unilaterally declared independence from the Republic of Cyprus. The de facto state is not recognised by any UN state except Turkey.
- ^ Papacostas, Tasos (2012). "Byzantine Nicosia: 650-1191". In Michaelides, D. (ed.). Historic Nicosia. Nicosia: Rimal Publications. p. 87.
- ^ Paul Sant Cassia, Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-228-5, p. 237.