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Two million people have walked into Varosha since 2020. None of them were allowed to stay, and the people who own the buildings are still not allowed in at all. Varosha is a quarter of the city of Famagusta, on the east coast of Cyprus. Six point one nine square kilometres, fenced off by the Turkish army in August 1974 and held empty ever since. Between 1970 and 1974 it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world: Famagusta held almost half the hotel capacity of the entire island, and the guest lists ran to Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot. The four future members of ABBA played a show for Swedish UN peacekeepers on the island in April 1970. Then came the coup of 15 July 1974, the Turkish landing on 20 July, and the second offensive on 14 August that brought Famagusta under Turkish control. The people of Varosha left hours ahead of the fighting, expecting to be back within days. The 1973 census had recorded 31,151 Greek Cypriots living in Famagusta. None of them have moved back. This is the full story: UN Security Council Resolution 550 of 11 May 1984, which called the settlement of Varosha by anyone other than its inhabitants inadmissible and asked for the city to be handed to UN administration; Resolution 789 of 1992; the 2004 settlement plan that would have returned Varosha and was rejected by 76 per cent of Greek Cypriots while 65 per cent of Turkish Cypriots voted yes; the crossings that opened on 23 April 2003, none of which goes into Varosha; the sea turtles the BBC found nesting on the dark beach in 2014; the partial reopening of 8 October 2020; and the two millionth visitor on 2 August 2024. And then the part nobody puts on a postcard: what an owner can actually do. Loizidou v Turkey in December 1996, where the European Court of Human Rights ruled she kept full legal ownership of a house she could not enter. Demopoulos in 2010. One Cypriot company that went to court in 2005, filed with the commission in 2010, went back to the court in 2017, and finally won on 10 June 2025 — twenty years, and still no final figure. A fence held this city for the first ten years. Documents have held it for the other forty-two. 0:00 One street into a sealed city 1:37 The best beach in the Mediterranean 3:09 The names on the guest list 4:37 The Aspelia, two years old 5:22 An island already cracked 7:22 15 July 1974: the coup 8:16 20 July 1974: the invasion 9:16 Five weeks 9:57 14 August 1974: the day it emptied 11:47 The fence 12:49 11 May 1984: Resolution 550 13:33 The near misses 14:35 2004: the closest it came 15:46 Thirty-six years of nobody 17:56 8 October 2020, and two million 19:23 Twenty years in court 22:23 The line that stayed Sources: - Cyprus Mail, Varosha explainer (reviewed 12 October 2026) and its reporting on the 2 August 2024 two-millionth visitor and the 10 June 2025 European Court ruling - UN Security Council Resolutions 550 (1984) and 789 (1992); UN Secretary-General's report, January 2026 - PRIO Cyprus Displacement Centre for the 1973 census figure for Famagusta - International Crisis Group for island-wide displacement in 1974 - BBC, 2014, on sea turtles nesting at Varosha Images: Wikimedia Commons, every one credited in the pinned comment. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Subscribe for more places history left behind: https://www.youtube.com/@LeftOnTheMapHistory?sub_confirmation=1 This video uses an AI-generated voice. The photographs are real. #Varosha #Cyprus #ForgottenPlaces #LeftOnTheMap #ColdWar

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