Pyla
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 A view from Pyla | |
  Pyla | |
| Coordinates: 35°00′50″N 33°41′33″E / 35.01389°N 33.69250°E | |
| Country |  Cyprus |
| District | Larnaca District |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,771 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Pyla (Greek: Πύλα; Turkish: Pile) is a village in Larnaca District, Cyprus. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone, the other three being Athienou, Troulloi and Deneia. Pyla is located in the eastern part of the island, adjacent to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia. From a legal point of view, it is administered as all other areas controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, but policed by UN peacekeepers.[2]
The village is special in the respect that it is the only settlement in Cyprus still inhabited by both its original Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot inhabitants.[3] 850 of the inhabitants are Greek Cypriots and 487 are Turkish Cypriots.[4] The village has three churches and one mosque.
Pyla-Kokkinokremos[5] is an archaeological site dating to the Late Bronze Age.
- ^ "Population - Place of Residence, 2011". Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT). 17 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014.
- ^ "Mixed village in Cyprus buffer zone looks to offer hope". France 24. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ "Pyla, Cyprus: Life in a Divided Village | DW | 09.11.2003".
- ^ "UNFICYP > Civil Affairs". Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
- ^ Keswani, Priscilla (2004). Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus. Equinox Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 9781904768036.
Still other small centers such as Maa Palaeokastro and Pyla Kokkinokremos may conceivably have been founded as outposts of other larger urban settlements like Kouklia or Kition, thus constituting externally imposed foci of elite power within the surrounding countryside.