Mouttagiaka
Mouttagiaka is a village in the Limassol district in Cyprus and is located 11 kilometers east of Limassol, 63 km west of Larnaca, 79 km southwest of Nicosia and 76 km east of Paphos.
Built at an altitude of 65 meters between the Yermasoyia and the touristic Agios Tikhonas, the village Mouttagiaka of the about 3,000 residents is a small area that has developed rapidly in recent years. Many apartments for rent and a hotel, restaurants, grill houses, fish restaurants, cinemas, shops and nightclubs, with all the infrastructure and the facilities are open all year round, serving locals as well as foreign visitors. With a small but beautiful beach front of 500 meters and the Beach Miami, in the summer the area is full of life, with bathers enjoying the clear waters and having fun at the two water parks of the area. Close by are the Sailing Club and the Rowing Club that are part of the Yacht Club Kyrenia, while the core of the village consists of stone houses. In the village there are also two churches without special architectural or historic interest.
The village of Mouttagiaka was probably founded as a settlement during the Turkish occupation and before the Turkish invasion of 1974 it was a purely Turkish Cypriot village, and its inhabitants were mainly farmers. After Attila and the agreed exchange of populations, residents left the village and moved to the occupied areas of northern Cyprus, while Greek Cypriot refugees came to the village in their place. Surrounding the area of the village were created 11 settlements in which live about 3,000 refugees.
Muttukaya in Turkish means happy rock and it is possible the name of the region is a corruption of the Turkish name of the village from the Greeks. According to another version the name is Greek and comes from the words nose (moutti in the Cypriot dialect) and agia meaning road (village at the “nose” of the road, because of its location).
The residents of Mouttagiaka are occupied in small industries, workshops, a few in farming and agriculture, while others work in the nearby city Limassol. In the livestock breeding farms of the village sheep, goats, cows, rabbits and poultry are bred.