Perivolia Trikomou is a small Turkish community in the occupied district of Ammochostos. It lies 19 kilometres north of Ammochostos, at an elevation of 10 metres, on the plain near the shore of the bay of Ammochostos, a little east of Trikomo. In the 1960 census it had 44 inhabitants, all of them Turks.

Name

In the 1931 census the village is written “Perivolia tou Trikomou”.

Churches and monasteries

The Greek Orthodox church of the village is small and dedicated to Saint Epiphanios. It stands south of the old core of the settlement, and its date is not known. Around it was the cemetery of the Greek inhabitants. According to Cyprus Religious Heritage, which visited it in 2022, the church has not been in use for many decades; almost nothing of its furnishings survives inside, and no trace of the cemetery remains.¹

Economy and society

According to the Great Cyprian Encyclopaedia, before 1974 the village’s land was sown with cereals and planted with a few citrus trees.²

Population

According to the Great Cyprian Encyclopaedia, the village had 73 inhabitants in 1881 and 107 in 1891; in 1911 it had 159, of whom 84 were Christians and 75 Muslims, and in 1921 95, of whom 13 were Christians and 82 Muslims.³ In 1931 Perivolia had 105 inhabitants, 38 Christians and 67 Muslims, and in 1946 103, of whom 24 were Orthodox and 79 Muslims (the censuses of 1931 and 1946 recorded only religion). In 1960 it had 44 inhabitants, all of them Turks, and in 1973 about 50 (estimate).