Avlona | |
|---|---|
  Avlona | |
| Coordinates: 35°09′40″N33°06′22″E / 35.16111°N 33.10611°E Coordinates: 35°09′40″N33°06′22″E / 35.16111°N 33.10611°E | |
| Country ( de jure ) |  |
| • District | Nicosia District |
| Country ( de facto ) |  |
| • District | Güzelyurt District |
| Population (2011) [2] | |
| • Total | 367 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Avlona (Greek : Αυλώνα; Turkish : Gayretköy) is a village in Cyprus, about halfway between Nicosia and Morphou. De facto , it is under the control of Northern Cyprus.
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.
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
