Aerial view of Statos-Ayios Fotios, Cyprus abandoned village, Paphos region, Cyprus
he two abandoned villages of Statos and Agios Fotios in the Paphos district of Cyprus, are just two kilometres apart. During the years of 1966 to 1969 the two villages met with catastrophic disasters due to very heavy rapid rainfall. The government called in special geologists who inspected the villages and recommended that the villages be transferred to another area. That is when most residents of the two villages, decided to join the two transfer and joining of the two communities occurred with the approval of the local authorities as well as the president of the democracy of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios the third. At the end of 1973 the first residents of the new village began to the Turkish invasion in 1974, many refugees from the occupied parts of Cyprus established themselves in the new community. The joint village took the name of Statos-Agios Fotios and is located in the Paphos district very close to Agia Moni and the Monastery of Panagia Chrysorogiatissa.
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Location: Statos-Ayios Fotios, Paphos district, Cyprus
Photo credit: © Ian Rutherford / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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