As may be seen from the chart above, the village did not exist before 1960. Before that time, what later became a village consisted of nothing more than a police station and two or three houses and sheperd huts. The few persons living in the area before 1960 were counted in censuses as part of Aghirda village.
Displacement:
From its original population no one was displaced; however, the village served as a reception centre for many displaced Turkish Cypriots in 1964. Thus, in 1964, this small extension of Ağırdağ(211) village became the military and police headquarters of the Nicosia enclave. The Boghaz Turkish Cypriot military commander also became responsible for all the Turkish Cypriot villages in the Kyrenia district.
According to geographer Richard Patrick, in 1971, there were approximately 750 displaced Turkish Cypriots residing in a camp which was erected in 1964 in an area between Ağırdağ(211) and Boghaz villages. The majority of those staying here came from Kyrenia villages such as Laphithos/Lapta(237), Vasileia/Karşıyaka(252), Diorios/Tepebaşı(219), Trapeza/Beşparmak(250), Agios Epiktitos/Çatalköy(208), Kazafani/Ozanköy(229), Agios Ermolaos/Şirinevler(209) and Kyrenia/Girne(236) town.
Current Inhabitants:
Currently the village is mainly inhabited by middle class and upper middle class Turkish Cypriots, as well as some civil servant families who are living in social housing and apartment blocks that were built in the village. In the last twenty years, especially, many Turkish Cypriots from Nicosia and some Turkish Cypriot returnees from the United Kingdom have been buying property and settling here. The 2006 census puts the total population of the village at 1,297.
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