Distribution of Residential Districts in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus through Geographical Information Systems in 1974 and After

As a result of events taking place in cyprus until 1974, the peace operation has been performed by turkey as a guarantor of cyprus in respect to international treaties with the aim of bringing peace to the island where today's green line has been created due to this operation. the exchange of this operation is performed as a result of this operation. in total of 210 villages exist in total at the northern part of the island before 1974 where the 34 of these villages mixed of turkish and greeks population, 101 of them greek and 70 of them turkish, and 5 of them composed of maronites. after the creation of the border after 1974, remainder of the populations composed of turks migrated from south to north and greeks migrated north to south. these migrations has not affected the state of settlements of turks in north and greeks in south which were already settled before 1974 however number of maronite villages have decreased from 5 to 3 which are koruçam, karpaşa and ozhan. after 1974 both communities have formed their own governments and turks who migrated northward after 1974 settled new villages and named these villages with new turkish names. today, the mixed populations exist in pile and karpas region of the northern cyprus. the pile village exist on the green line where both communities live in and it exists while people who refused to migrate from south to north lives in karpas region. this study investigates the distribution of settlements of communities in 1974 and after. names of old and new settlements are determined as which settlements are greek, turkish or marunits and distribution of populations are shown through maps generated through geographical information systems.