Aglandjia is a suburb and municipality of Nicosia, Cyprus. The municipality has a population of 20,783 and is contiguous with the Nicosia Municipality.
Alsos Akadimias National Forest
Concise presentation of Aglandjia
The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organization that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus, and for eventual union with Greece.
Aglandjia
…Kornesios erected Ayios Yeoryios church on the site of the cemetery and Ayios Yeoryios church in Athalassa. Aglandjia contributed organized groups to the EOKA struggle, and local volunteers also participated in the events of 1964. Aglandjia was bombed during the Turkish invasion of 1974. The Turkish army…
A British soldier facing a crowd of demonstrators during the Battle at Nicosia Hospital in 1956
Archbishop Makarios III (here in 1962) was the political leader of EOKA.
Monument for Michalis Karaolis, Nicosia