Maronites

[pinar]

I would like to learn cultural things about the Maronites. How do they celebrate Christmas, Easter? how their family works? Recently I traced my family hisory and according to Archives here in Cyprus, my great great great-grand parents were Maronites, who converted to Islam and became Turkish-Cypriots. My old family name was Avraam.

[Sharkis]

Dear Pinar,

My name is Sharbel and I come from the Maronite village of Kormakitis ( Korucam in Turkish) from the North of Cyprus.

Now I leave in the South but I visit the village weekly at least. My parents and many relatives still live there.

In Cyprus there exist 6000 Maronites who emigrated here in waves from Lebanon and Syria 1300 years ago.

For more on the Maronites of Cyprus please visit our website maronites-cy.com

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Sharbel Tzotzoukis
Wemaster
maronite-cy.com