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| BU Number | BU0066 |
|---|---|
| Village | Tembria |
| Related BUs | BU0064 |
| BU Summary | Other; Tembria neighbourhoods. These are Kato Geitonia (lower), Mesa Geitonia (middle) and Pera Geitonia (furthest). |
| Habitable | Yes |
| Occupied | Yes |
| Building Type | Other |
| Description | Tembria is known to locals as consisting of three neighborhoods: Kato Geitonia (=Tembria-I), ie, Lower Neighborhood, Mesa Geitonia (Tembria-II), ie, Middle neighborhood and Pera Geitonia (Tembria-III) ie, Furthest Neigborhood. Kato Geitonia has Timios Stavros church, and ruin of live mill (just wood posts and stone of olive press SW of hill on which church stands). Mesa Geitonia has Ayia Paraskeyvi church and vanished oil mill. Pera Geitonia had church of St. George, according to Mrs. Polikseni, (church was on plot 44) she remembers ruins of apse, since built over by neighboring house of plot No. 666. This house also had an oil mill. The mill was gutted and the room became a kitchen. The oven was kept, with the opening looking into the mill house-kitchen. Of the mill mechanism, only a beautiful pink marble mill stone remains in the couryard of the house. |
| Ownership | Greek Cypriot |
| Period 1100 | No |
| Period 1601 | No |
| Period 1701 | No |
| Period 1801 | No |
| Period 1851 | No |
| Period 1901 | No |
| Period 1951 | No |
| Oral Information | Polikseni Achilleos, of Tembria-III, living in Limassol. |
| Recorded By | SEZ |
| Recorded Date | 2/7/2001 00:00:00 |
| Entered By | SEZ |
| Entered Date | 29/7/2001 00:00:00 |