Kato Arodes Cemetery
Empty Spaces
There was another headstone on this grave, though it was fairly damaged...
All I can make out here, outside of RUHUNA, was that they died in 1973.
Akamas View
As final resting places go, few have a finer view.
Mustafa Rests Here
There's no way this headstone is over 50 years old. So I can only assume that somebody has replaced an older version with this one.
"Commoner's Section"
Looking at the graveyard as a whole, it looks like there were two distinct parts. The wealthy families had their tombs to the left of this shot. However, the wooded area is younger than 46, which was how long ago the village was abandoned. For some reason, the trees have been planted afterwards. There are numerous reasons why this might have happened. For instance, the villagers might want to hide the cemetery from the rest of the village. You sometimes see this also with mosques that have been empty since the 70s. The remaining Christian villagers don't desecrate them, but plant trees around them to hide them from sight. A good example of this is in the village of Fasoula, on the Diarizos Valley.
Or perhaps the villagers planted the trees to hide the graveyard from vandals? Who knows. However, before the trees, there will still have been two sections to the graveyard; one containing tombs, and one with lots of simple headstones.
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