Turkey invaded and occupied 37% of the Cypriot territory.
Numerous EOKA-veterans who joined the army after the struggle, participated during the bloody battles of resistance against the neo-Ottoman aggression.
1) Turkish-occupied birthplaces of EOKA heroes
Marked in white is the Heroes birth place.
Marked in Blue is free Cyprus
Marked in Red is Occupied Areas.
Green Line is the buffer zone
Famagusta province: 25 | Nicosia province: 5 | Kyrenia province: 3 | ||||
Rizokarpaso | Petrakis Giallouros |
Galini | Charilaos Michael | Agridaki | Prodromos Xenophontos | |
Rizokarpaso | Panagiotis Kaspis |
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Lysi | Patroklos Kokkinos |
Kythrea | Spyros Hatzigiakoumis | Kalograia | Giakoumis Anastasis | |
Lysi | Grigoris Afxentiou | |||||
Lysi | Georgios Ionas Georgiou |
Xeros | Takis Sofokleous | Larnaca in Lapithos | Stelios Mavrommatis | |
Lysi | Christofis Panagidis |
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Lysi | Anastasios Souroullas | Zodia | Nikolaos Yagou |
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Lysi | Dimitrakis Anastasi |
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Lysi | Michael Kaili | Lefka | Markos Drakos | |||
Lysi | Kallis Sakka |
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Achna | Giasoumis Chatzitheodosiou |
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Kalopsida | Charalambos Michael |
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Koma tou Gialou | Andreas Paraskeva |
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Gialousa | Stavros Stylianidis |
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Lythragomi | Elias Papakyriacos |
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Stylloi | Panagiotis Chrysostomou |
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Stylloi | Theodosis Hatzitheodosiou |
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Lefkoniko | Savvas Zanou |
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Prastio | Michael Koukkis |
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Famagusta | Panagiotis Toumazou |
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Trikomo | Giannis Ioannis Stylianou |
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Trikomo | Nikos Karantonis |
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Marathovounos | Kostas Loizou |
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Marathovounos | Michael Georgallas |
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Pigi | Andreas Epifaniou |
The hero Kyriakos Koudounas from Lapithos
The hero Antonis Mesiouris from Lakatamia
3) EOKA heroes relatives who fought in 1974
Heroine Loukia (Laoutaris) Papageorgiou
The immortal heroine
Her son Christodoulos Laoutaris and her cousin Antonis Papageorgiou fell in 1974 while performing their patriotic duty in the village of Templos in the province of Kyrenia (currently Turkish-occupied)
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The hero Christodoulos Laoutaris
The hero Antonis Papageorgiou
Their bones were recovered after 47 years. The funeral took place in the year 2021.
Artwork of the 3 heroes
The heroes brothers George Karyos and Andreas Karyos
Their relative Nikiforos Karyos was a member of the 361st infantry battalion and fell heroically in the area of Koutsoventis