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 | | The first settlers who arrived in the island after the issue of this Firman numbered about twenty thousand, but this figure did not include the permanent garrison, whose official strength was 2,000 infantry and 2,666 cavalry, and who were already stationed in the island after the conquest. |
 | | In a report I received from Lala Mustafa Pasha, the Governor of Cyprus, it is stated that during the war which lasted three years, many parts of the island were destroyed, and a new ambitious plan is necessary to re- activate the economy and use the natural resources of the island to their utmost. |
 | | KORMACIT (Kormatiki) Kormacit is a village in the north-westernmost of Northern Cyprus, habited by the island's Maronite minority. |
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