Patriki Patriki Patriki (, ) is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the Karpas Peninsula. It is under the "de facto" control of Northern Cyprus. Patriki is the ancestral home of singer George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou). His father, Kyriacos Panayiotou, was born here in 1935 and lived in the village working with family until 1953 when he left for England. The village has been under Turkish occupation since the 1974 invasion. The village used to be inhabited by Greek-Cypriots. In his book "Historic Cyprus" (second edition 1947) Rupert Gunnis (who was Inspector of Antiquities on the
Georgios Babiniotis Georgios Babiniotis Georgios Babiniotis (; born 6 January 1939) is a Greek linguist and philologist and former Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of Greece. He previously served as rector of Athens University. As a linguist, he is best known as the author of a "Dictionary of Modern Greek" (Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας), which was published in 1998. He was born in Athens, in 1939. He graduated from the 9th Boys' Gymnasium of Athens and then he studied philology at the Philological School of Athens. In 1962 he earned his degree, and he took more studies in Greece and