Description

The village you read the three letters as a two-syllable word, "SI-A", you will find in it the well-know intelligence service of the United States of America (CIA as it is pronounced in Greek).

However, if you read it as a single-syllable word you will find the likeable name of the Sia village and you will be pronouncing the name of the only one-syllable village in Cyprus. You will be surprised to know that this single-syllable name hides in it a long and painful historic period of our island.

Analytically, the inhabitants of the community in 1881 were 177, decreasing to 115 in 1891, increasing to 230 in 1901, to 241 in 1911, to 251 in 1921, to 266 in 1931, to 338 in 1946, to 434 in 190, and to 396 in 1976. In 1982 the inhabitants decreased down to 369. In the last population census that was done in 2001 the inhabitants were 530.

Today Sia is in a state of rapid development (a fact made obvious also by the significant increase of its population). Administratively it belongs to the capital, from which it is only 28 kilometres away and with which it is connected through the modern Nicosia -- Limassol highway. It has a distance of only 26 kilometres from the city of Larnaca and its sea and connects to it via the Mosfyloti - Psevdas - Agia Anna - Kalo Chorio road and the Pera Chorio -- Larnaca motorway.

Its geographical position, along with the fact that it is the first pine-clad, semi-mountainous region after Nicosia, makes it a much sought after region with regards to acquiring a permanent residence.