It was followed by a 131 year old Turkish occupation.
The village has been under Turkish occupation since the 1974 invasion.
During the Turkish occupation, it maintained a school and a noteworthy library.
The village became totally destroyed under Turkish occupation in the 16th century.
The Turkish occupation lasted for more than 140 years.
It was, for a time, a mosque, during the Turkish occupation.
At the outset, the Turkish occupation of the city was orderly.
This was therefore long before the Turkish occupation of the north in 1974.
This is not reunification, however, as the Turkish occupation would continue.
Cyprus is still under Turkish military occupation, in defiance of international law.