As may be seen from the chart above, Trimithousa was a Turkish Cypriot village from the Ottoman period. Throughout the 20th century, the population of the village fluctuated and eventually declined from 97 in 1901 to 81 in 1960.
Displacement:
No one was displaced from this village during the emergency years of the 1950s, nor during the intercommunal fighting of 1963-64. At the beginning of the 1974 war, the village surrendered to Greek Cypriot forces immediately after the Turkish sector of Polis did so, on 22 July. However, after a ceasefire was implemented in August, a few young villagers fled through the mountains to the north, which was by then under Turkish control. The remaining 72 persons were evacuated to the north under UNFICYP escort on 5 September 1975. Most were subsequently resettled in Larnaka tis Lapithiou/Kozan(238). The number of Trimithousa/Uzunmeşe Turkish Cypriots who were displaced after 1974 was around 90-100 (81 in the 1960 census).
Current Inhabitants:
Today Trimithousa/Uzunmeşe is empty and in ruin.
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