Agios Sozomenos a deserted village in the Nicosia district, 3 Kms North of Potamia/Dereli and 6 Kms west of Pyroi/Gaziler.
According to Goodwin, Agios Sozomenos was named after an early Cypriot saint. Until 1964, the village was mixed, inhabited by Greek and Turkish Cypriots. In 1958, Turkish Cypriots adopted the alternative name Arpalık, meaning “place of barley.”

In the video we see the 16th-century Gothic church of Agios Mamas!

The village was always a mixed village. In the Ottoman census of 1831, the Muslim (Turkish Cypriots) population was slightly more than the Greek Cypriots (50.7%). In 1891 the Turkish Cypriot proportion increased to 69%. Throughout the British period, while the Turkish Cypriot population of the village showed a steady increase, the number of Greek Cypriots gradually decreased.

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In Kiti, Larnaca is the church Angeloktisti (that means built by Angels). This 11th century Byzantine church was erected over the ruins of an Early Christian basilica. The original apse survived together with one of the finest pieces of Byzantine art of the Justinian period a rare 6th century mosaic of the Virgin and Child between two Archangels that can be found only in Cyprus and in Mount Sinai that have mosaics of this period survived the iconoclastic decrees ordering the destruction of most icons and objects of idolatry.

The eight meters high tower in Kiti (also known as Riegena Tower, Πύργος της Ρήγαινας) with a base of six square meters is a monument of military architecture of the late 15th century, built in the Venetian style. 

In Kiti, Larnaca is the church Angeloktisti (that means built by Angels). This 11th century Byzantine church was erected over the ruins of an Early Christian basilica.

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