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Arab Ahmet is a Neighbourhood, Quarter, Mahalla or Parish of Nicosia, Cyprus〔〔Coexistence in the Disappeared Mixed Neighbourhoods of Nicosia by Ahmet An (Paper read at the conference: Nicosia: The Last Divided Capital in Europe, organized by the London Metropolitan University on 20 June 2011)〕〔6th edition of the publication "Statistical Codes of Municipalities, Communities and Quarters of Cyprus" (publ. Statistical Service of Republic of Cyprus)〕 and the mosque situated therein. Both the Quarter and the mosque are named after Arab Ahmet Pasha, one of the Turkish commanders in the Ottoman conquest of Nicosia.〔"A description of the historic monuments of Cyprus. Studies in the archaeology and architecture of the island" by George Jeffery, Nicosia 1918〕 It is spelled Arabahmet in Turkish and Άραπ Άχμετ in Greek. At the last Census (2011) it had a population of 3,550.〔〔〔Total - see details in this article〕 It covers the historic Arab Ahmet neighbourhood in the west of Nicosia within the walls, plus an area west of that outside the walls up to the municipal boundary 〔"Quarters of Nicosia" Prepared and published by the Dept. of Lands and Surveys, Cyprus, 1985, Revised 1997. Series DLS30. Scale 1:7500〕 The population in 1946 was 2,617〔Census of Cyprus, 1946〕 (576 Greek, 846 Turkish, 1195 other - mostly Armenian, some Latin community). Together with the neighbouring Karamanzade Neighbourhood, it was part of the predominantly Armenian area of Nicosia. The Neighbourhood outside the walls, is now delimited by the Dept. of Lands and Surveys 〔 as follows: The boundary line passes from the point of the Quirini or Cephane (Jeb Khane) bastion to the roundabout just north of the bastion. Namely, the roundabout at the corner of the former site of the Turkish Cemetery,〔"Romantic Cyprus" by Kevork Keshishian, pub 1958, Nicosia. Attached map of Nicosia〕 now the site of the Turkish Embassy in Cyprus.〔Google Maps, retrieved Dec 2013〕 From there the boundary continues along Bedrettin Demirel Avenue (Hilarion Avenue) for about a mile to the old municipal boundary. The boundary is then coterminous with the municipal border in a south-westerly direction until the vicinity of the Central Prison. From here the boundary passes south of the prison due east, via Norman St., thence along Dereboyu Avenue and Markos Drakos Ave. until the point of the Roccas bastion. This area includes the Ledra Palace Hotel, British High Commission, Central Prison and the Turkish Cypriot Assembly of the Republic.〔British American Tobacco archives retrieved from http://tobaccodocuments.org/guildford_misc/500010628-0648.html Dec 2013〕 Parts of the neighborhood outside the walls in the north have been detached from the Arab Ahmet neighbourhood and are now considered parts of Köşklüçiftlik. ==History== Arab Ahmet was one of the original 12 Quarters as they existed shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Nicosia in 1570 and, like the others, was named after and put in charge of one of the commanders of the victorious army〔 It is one of the later 24 historic Quarters or Neighbourhoods of Nicosia within the walls.〔 In 1923 it was extended to encompass an extensive area outside the walls,〔Order No. 397 published in Cyprus Gazette No. 1597, 4 August 1923〕 linked by the road just to the north of the Mula (Zahra) bastion. According to the 1923 boundary extension beyond the walls, the northern boundary (with Ibrahim Pasha Quarter) was formed by a straight line from the salient of the Quirini/Cephane bastion, to the south-west comer of the Turkish cemetery. The southern boundary (with Tophane Quarter - renamed Ayios Andreas in Sept. 1945〔) ran West from the "new" entrance, Paphos Gate, along the Bridge Road, across the Pediaios Potamos Bridge and along the Central Prison Road until it meets the Town boundary.〔 (Subsequent adjustment placed the southern boundary slightly north of this 〔). The eponymous mosque was founded in the early 18th century.〔Ahmet Gazioglu, The Turks in Cyprus - A Province of the Ottoman Empire, London, 1990〕 Arab Ahmet neighbourhood was the most prestigious residential area of Nicosia, where the Turkish high-ranking officials and the Kadis and the Pashas had their homes. First of all it was near the old Ottoman Saray (previously Lusignan palace) and easy for the high-ranking officials to go to their work on foot. Secondly it was the coolest place in the evening during the summer because it could get the best of the evening breeze, coming from the west, from the direction of the Morphou Bay into the Mesaoria plain. Armenian Cypriots had been concentrated in the area since the Ottoman conquest, though they were a minority in the area until the 1920s.〔 Many other Armenians, who escaped from the massacres in Anatolia, settled in the Arab Ahmet neighbourhood and lived there until the inter-communal troubles of 1963, when they fled the quarter. Since most of the Armenians from Anatolia could speak Turkish, they preferred to live alongside Turkish Cypriots, using the same language. The Armenians were known as tradesmen and they were famous especially in the fields of jewelry, tailory, photography and carpet-selling.〔 At first, many Armenians leased Turkish properties. As they prospered in the area, they bought these properties from Turkish Cypriots, who preferred to either leave the island for Turkey or move to the new Köşklüçiftlik quarter outside the walls. By the 1950s, only 5-10 Turkish families living in ancestral mansions had remained in the area. The area was a vibrant part of the city in this period, Victoria Street (today known as Salahi Şevket Street) became a centre of culture and business. Haşmet Muzaffer Gürkan described the area in the 1940s as one where "sounds of piano could be heard any time of the day from the houses".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arab Ahmet, Nicosia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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