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Η εκκλησία Παναγία Χρυσελεούσας στο χωριό Σιά
Αν την διαβάσετε σαν μονοσύλλαβη λέξη θα βρείτε το συμπαθέστατο όνομα του χωριού Σια και θα προφέρετε το όνομα του μόνου μονοσύλλαβου χωριού στην Κύπρο.
Ήταν η περίοδος των αραβικών επιδρομών που κράτησε πάνω από χίλια χρόνια (500 – 1500 μ.χ.). Οι αραβικές επιδρομές δεν ήταν οργανωμένες κατακτητικές εκστρατείες. Ήταν ληστρικά φουσάτα που οργάνωναν πολεμάρχες για ληστείες και πιάτσικα με τα οποία αρπάζανε τα γεννήματα του κόσμου, τα ζώα του και τους ίδιους τους ανθρώπους για τα σκλαβοπάζαρα.
Σημαντικές εκτάσεις γης, υπήρχαν για βόσκηση και συντήρηση κοπαδιών. Έτσι η κοινότητα επέζησε μέσα στις χιλιετηρίδες της γνωστής ιστορίας της Κύπρου.
Σε διάφορες περιοχές της κοινότητας, υπάρχουν αρχαία ερείπια και τάφοι. Η ύπαρξή τους αποδεικνύει ότι κατά την αρχαιότητα υπήρχε εκεί οικισμός. Οι προκαταρκτικές έρευνες (συστηματικές δεν έχουν γίνει) έδειξαν κατάλοιπα οικισμού, μάλλον των Ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, περίπου 2 χιλιόμετρα βόρεια του χωριού. Υπάρχουν επίσης ενδείξεις ότι στην περιοχή υπήρχε οικισμός των προϊστορικών χρόνων.
Η γεωγραφική της θέση μαζί με το γεγονός ότι είναι η πρώτη πευκόφυτη ημιορεινή περιοχή, μετά τη Λευκωσία, την κάμνει περιζήτητη για την απόκτηση μόνιμης κατοικίας.
Πηγή http://www.sia.org.cy/history.shtm
Photos 2/3/2016 by George Konstantinou
However, if you read it as a single-syllable word you will find the likeable name of the Sia village and you will be pronouncing the name of the only one-syllable village in Cyprus.
You will be surprised to know that this single-syllable name hides in it a long and painful historic period of our island.
The basin in which our ancestors created this community, apart from the defensive advantage of the "shadowy area", also had what was necessary so as to sustain itself; two rivers, which had water throughout the year. The area between the rivers (about one kilometre) is mainly rocky and at a significant altitude above the riverbed, in a way that the village does not face any danger from floods. Next to the rivers, fields shaped by alluvial soil -and thus fertile -were able to yield any kind of produce.
Woodcutting, which was the only source of heating and energy, was still easy for them and quite auspicious, since they supplied the lowland communities. Large tracts of land were there for pasturage and the keeping of herds. And so, the community survived through the millennia of Cyprus's known history.
One solid element indicating the assiduity of the community's founders, regarding their defence from the raids, is the cave that exists at the centre of the community, which -as the elders testify - has a length of about 100 metres and a width of 4-5 metres. Today it is closed and unknown to the younger generations, because the Council and the Antiquities Department showed no interest in its exposure. The cave was large enough to conceal the community's populace and their animals. What we don't know -and which archaeology's axe can ascertain -is whether it was a natural one or if it was made by human hands of that era.
In various areas of the community there are ancient ruins and tombs. Their existence proves that there was a settlement there during the antiquity. Preliminary researches (systematic ones have not been conducted) revealed remains of a settlement, more likely of the Roman times, located about 2 kilometres north of the village. There are also indications that there was in the region a settlement belonging to the prehistoric times.
Sia, during its age-long and turbulent history, has gone through several fluctuations of its population. Analytically, the inhabitants of the community in 1881 were 177, decreasing to 115 in 1891, increasing to 230 in 1901, to 241 in 1911, to 251 in 1921, to 266 in 1931, to 338 in 1946, to 434 in 190, and to 396 in 1976. In 1982 the inhabitants decreased down to 369. In the last population census that was done in 2001 the inhabitants were 530.
Today Sia is in a state of rapid development (a fact made obvious also by the significant increase of its population). Administratively it belongs to the capital, from which it is only 28 kilometres away and with which it is connected through the modern Nicosia -- Limassol highway. It has a distance of only 26 kilometres from the city of Larnaca and its sea and connects to it via the Mosfyloti - Psevdas - Agia Anna - Kalo Chorio road and the Pera Chorio -- Larnaca motorway.
Its geographical position, along with the fact that it is the first pine-clad, semi-mountainous region after Nicosia, makes it a much sought after region with regards to acquiring a permanent residence.
From http://www.sia.org.cy/english/history.shtm
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