Athienou

 'All the inhabitants of the new village of the 150 houses ply the trade of muleteers , in Turkish kiraji - the Turks call the place Kiraji-Keuy . According to an unauthenticated tradition these Kirajis are of distinguished ancestry , for they say , at the capture of Famagusta , after all the principal Venetians had been executed by the Turks , there were still a number of poor nobles , to whom the victors , tired of bloodshed , granted their lives . Helpless and poor , without the means to return to Venice , to which their families were now for several generations strangers , these patricians turned to the calling of guide-muleteers .'

 R. Gunnis

Historic Cyprus (1936)

The spotted blue , mule-driven carts and the camels have been replaced by modern lorries and where once the number of camels and donkeys one possessed would confer status , it is now the horse-power of the latest Mercedes in the garage that counts .