# Lysi

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Municipality in Famagusta District, Cyprus

Lysi Λύση (Greek) Akdoğan, Lisi (Turkish) Municipality Church of Panagia in Lysi Lysi Location in Cyprus Coordinates: 35°6′19″N 33°40′52″E / 35.10528°N 33.68111°E / 35.10528; 33.68111 Country (de jure) Cyprus • District Famagusta District Country (de facto) Northern Cyprus[1] • District Gazimağusa District Government • Mayor Ahmet Latif Population (2011)[2] • Total 2,471 Time zone UTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST) Website Turkish Cypriot municipality

**Lysi** ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Λύση, [Turkish](/source/Turkish_language): *Akdoğan* or *Lisi*) is a village located in the [Mesaoria](/source/Mesaoria) plain in [Cyprus](/source/Geography_of_Cyprus), north of the city of [Larnaca](/source/Larnaca). It is under the *[de facto](/source/De_facto)* control of [Northern Cyprus](/source/Northern_Cyprus). Lysi is also the administration center for the villages of Beyarmudu, Paşaköy, Pile and Vadili.

In 1960, there were 3,700 Greek Cypriots living in the village and approximately 6,000 in 1974, when they all fled because of the [Turkish invasion](/source/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus) and the subsequent [partition of the island](/source/Cyprus_dispute#The_divided_island_1974–1997). The arrival of [Turkish settlers](/source/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus#Turkish_settlers) from mainland Turkey and of Turkish Cypriots displaced from other villages in the southern part of Cyprus changed the demographics of the village.[3]

In the centre of the village there is a late 19th-century [Greek Orthodox](/source/Greek_Orthodox_Church) church, covered in a thick layer of Gothic decoration copied from the great medieval cathedrals of Famagusta and [Nicosia](/source/Nicosia). The church was built by the inhabitants of Lysi who volunteered their work over several years. After the Turkish occupation of Lysi the church was looted,[4] all its Christian icons and other Christian interior decorations were removed and the church was turned into a mosque.

The diminutive 14th-century church of [St. Evphemianos](/source/Church_of_Saint_Evphemianos%2C_Lysi), 2 km (1.2 mi) southwest of the village, enjoys a lonely position, shaded by a clump of eucalyptus just above a water course. This small church depicted some of the most beautiful and well-preserved Byzantine mosaics found on the island of Cyprus. The mosaics were later purchased by the Menil Foundation in Texas, USA on behalf of the [Church of Cyprus](/source/Church_of_Cyprus) and have been on long-term loan to the Menil ever since. The loan agreement came to an end in February 2012.[5] West of the village, 2 km (1.2 mi) along the tarmac road to [Arsos](/source/Arsos%2C_Larnaca) village, there is a distinctive hillock capped with rounded boulders. Halfway down its southern face is a [Greek Archaic](/source/Archaic_Greece) nympheum, a small natural cave that archaeologists found filled with votive statuettes. The silhouette of the sibyl's hill hovers as a visual echo of the [Pentadaktylos](/source/Pentadaktylos) mountains on the northern horizon.

About 4 km (2.5 mi) farther west along this road, the other side of Arsos, is the hamlet of [Tremetousia](/source/Tremetousia), the site of [Richard the Lion Heart](/source/Richard_the_Lion_Heart)’s victory over [Isaac Comnenus](/source/Isaac_Komnenos_of_Cyprus). The ruinous church and the buildings on the northern edge are the remains of an 18th-century rebuilding of the ancient monastery of [St Spyridon](/source/Saint_Spyridon). The remains of the saint lay buried here for a few centuries before being removed to [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople), and eventually to the island of [Corfu](/source/Corfu).

## Notable people

- [Andreas Moleskis](/source/Andreas_Moleskis)

- [Grigoris Afxentiou](/source/Grigoris_Afxentiou)

## See also

- [Church of St. Euphemianos](/source/Church_of_St._Euphemianos)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** In 1983, the [Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus](/source/Northern_Cyprus) unilaterally [declared independence](/source/Declaration_of_Independence_of_the_Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus) from the Republic of [Cyprus](/source/Cyprus). The *[de facto](/source/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition)* state is not [recognised](/source/Diplomatic_recognition) by any UN state except [Turkey](/source/Turkey).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [*KKTC 2011 Nüfus ve Konut Sayımı*](https://web.archive.org/web/20131106001538/http://www.devplan.org/Nufus-2011/nufus%20ikinci_.pdf) [*TRNC 2011 Population and Housing Census*] (PDF), TRNC State Planning Organization, 6 August 2013, p. 17, archived from [the original](http://www.devplan.org/Nufus-2011/nufus%20ikinci_.pdf) (PDF) on 6 November 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-PlērophoriōnPlērophoriōn1987_3-0)** Cyprus. Grapheio Typou kai Plērophoriōn; Cyprus. Grapheion Dēmosiōn Plērophoriōn (1 August 1987). [*Foreign press on Cyprus*](https://books.google.com/books?id=GXUsAQAAIAAJ). Public Information Office. p. 14. Retrieved 7 March 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Güney1 Yüceer2, Yasemin İnce1 Hülya2 (October 2021). ["Appropriation of Church Buildings in Northern Cyprus"](https://adjournal.net/articles/94/948.pdf) (PDF). *Online Journal of Art and Design*. **9** (4): 99–112 – via Eastern Mediterranean University.{{[cite journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_numeric_names:_authors_list))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Povoledo, Elisabetta (23 September 2011). ["The Menil Is to Return Frescoes to Cyprus"](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/arts/design/menil-collection-is-to-return-frescoes-to-cyprus.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Menil%20frescoes&st=cse&). *The New York Times*. Retrieved 22 June 2014.

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