The twin villages of Kato and Pano Flasou are located in the Solea region of the Nicosia district, two kilometers north of Evryhou. The origin of the name Flasou is obscure, although there are claims that it may derive from a man’s name. Goodwin, for instance, suggests that the name might have originated with a founding landowner. Although these villages appear in most of the census reports as a single village, we know that there were two separate villages in close proximity to each other. Goodwin claims that Kato Flasou did not exist before 1870. All the census reports suggest that Kato Flasou was always a primarily Greek Cypriot village, while the same reports show that Turkish Cypriots constituted the majority in Pano Flasou until 1931. For instance, there were 36 Turkish Cypriots and 26 Greek Cypriots living in Pano Flasou in 1901; in 1921, there were 42 Turkish Cypriots and 30 Greek Cypriots. The chart below shows the villages’ combined populations.
The villages taken together have always been mixed. As can be seen from the chart above, in the Ottoman census of 1831, Christians (Greek Cypriots) constituted the majority of the population at 64%. In 1891 their percentage increased to 72%. Throughout the British period, while the Greek Cypriot population increased steadily, the Turkish Cypriot population fluctuated and eventually declined. In 1960, the Greek Cypriot share of the population had risen to 81.4%.
Displacement:
The first conflict-related displacement took place during the intercommunal tensions of 1958 caused by the armed EOKA struggle. Almost all the Turkish Cypriot inhabitants of Flasou fled the village and moved to more secure areas. After independence in 1960 they returned. However, they were displaced a second time during intercommunal disturbances in January 1964 and moved to Turkish Cypriot-controlled villages and towns such as Lefka/Lefke(060), Elia/Doğancı(029), Angolemi/Taşpınar(018) and Kazivera/Gaziveran(049). None of the Turkish Cypriots from this village returned. Currently, most of the Turkish Cypriots of Flasou are scattered around north Cyprus with a large pocket in Pentagiea/Yeşilyurt(084). In 1975 the Republic of Cyprus government allocated some of the empty Turkish Cypriot houses to displaced Greek Cypriots on a temporary basis..
Current Inhabitants:
Currently the village is mainly inhabited by its original Greek Cypriot villagers. Since 1974, the village’s population has been in decline, mainly due to migration to the cities. The last census of 2001 puts the total population of the village at 261.
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