Maratha, Cyprus

{{Short description| A village in Famagusta district, Cyprus}}

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|name =Maratha

|official_name =Μαράθα (Greek) Muratağa (Turkish)

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| subdivision_name1 = Famagusta District

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| subdivision_name2 = {{flag|Northern Cyprus}}{{Northern Cyprus-note}}

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| subdivision_name3 = Gazimağusa District

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{{Other uses|Maratha (disambiguation)}}

Maratha ({{langx|el|Μαράθα}}, {{langx|tr|Muratağa}}) is a small village located in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, 7 km south of Lefkoniko. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus.

The village was recorded as early as the early 13th century in papal documents.{{cite book |last1=Papacostas |first1=Tasos |editor1-last=Michaelides |editor1-first=D. |title=Historic Nicosia |date=2012 |publisher=Rimal Publications |location=Nicosia |page=87|chapter=Byzantine Nicosia: 650-1191}}

In 1974 a mass-grave containing the bodies of more than 80 murdered Turkish-Cypriots men, women and children was found here. These were the people who were massacred by the EOKA-B in the Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.Paul Sant Cassia, Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-84545-228-5}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EBFvRMO7_DkC&q=Aloa&pg=PA69 p. 237.]