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Aloda | |
|---|---|
village | |
| Αλόδα (Greek) Atlılar (Turkish) | |
  Aloda Location in Cyprus | |
| Coordinates: 35°12′33″N33°49′34″E / 35.20917°N 33.82611°E Coordinates: 35°12′33″N33°49′34″E / 35.20917°N 33.82611°E | |
| Country ( de jure ) |  |
| • District | Famagusta District |
| Country ( de facto ) |  |
| • District | Gazimağusa District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Aloda (Greek : Αλόδα, Turkish : Atlılar) is a small village located in the Famagusta District of Cyprus 5 km west of Agios Sergios. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. The village was inhabited by Turkish Cypriots before 1974. 37 of the inhabitants were killed by EOKA-B during Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre in 1974 and only three could escape.
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It has the longest documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning more than 3000 years of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the major part of its history; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were used previously. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.
Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around ten to fifteen million native speakers in Southeast Europe and sixty to sixty-five million native speakers in Western Asia. Outside Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state.
Famagusta District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is the island's most important port, Famagusta.
