Lellos demetriades biography channel

Lellos Demetriades was born in Nicosia on the 3rd of January 1933 and died in Nicosia on the 9th of April 2022.

He was married to Olga Demetriades and had two sons, Achilleas and Constantinos.

During his life he experienced all the historical moments of Cyprus of the 20th century and was an active part of the developments. During the liberation struggle of the Cypriots against the British he was a member of the EOKA organization and later, when the Republic of Cyprus was created, he was a member of parliament from 1960 to 1970.

In 1971, the then President of the Republic, Archbishop Makarios, appointed him Mayor (for some time there were no elections in the local government due to the withdrawal of the Turkish Cypriots in 1963 and their confinement in enclaves).

As Mayor of Nicosia, he remained in this position for thirty-one years (1970 -2001), at first as appointed Mayor and later, from 1986 as elected.

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