Gerolakkos

Gerolakkos or Yerolakkos (Greek : Γερόλακκος) in the Nicosia District is a village near Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. It was a nearly exclusively Greek Cypriot and relatively large village, and it was the site of intensive fighting during the Turkish invasion in 1974. Gerolakkos is immediately to the north of the Ceasefire line, later known as the Green line separating North and South Cyprus, in the areas occupied by the Turkish military.

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