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Dervis Pasa Mansion
Dervis Pasa Mansion
The owner of this two storey mansion built in the 19th century
was Dervish Pasha, the publisher of "Zaman" –
the first Turkish newspaper in Cyprus. The mansion is in the
Arap Ahmet region of Nicosia: this is the region of the walled
city which has preserved the fabric of the historical environment
most intensely. The mansion has two entrances. On the main entrance,
the year 1219 of the Muslim Calendar (1807) is visible. The
ground floor has been constructed of stone and the upper floor
of sundried brick. The year 1869 is visible on the ornamented
ceiling of the main room which is a later addition to the building.
The mansion has an ‘L’ shape with a large inner
courtyard. The rooms on the ground floor open to terraced pavilions
ringing the inner courtyard. A wooden staircase supported by
the water reservoir in the courtyard leads to the upper floor
where all the doors open to a covered porch. After the restoration
work between 1978-88, the mansion was opened as a ‘museum-house
or a museum of ethnograpy on 21 March 1988. It includes a main-room,
a bride-room, a dining-room, and a section where items of daily
use are being exhibited.
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