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 as George of Cyprus, and latinized as "Georgius Cyprius"; similarly George Hamartolos (d. 867), George Maniakes (d. 1043), George Palaiologos (d. 1118). In the case of modern Greek individuals, the spelling "Georgios" may be retained, e.g. Georgios Christakis-Zografos (1863–1920), Georgios Stanotas (1888–1965), Georgios Grivas (1897–1974), Georgios Alogoskoufis (b. 1955), Georgios Alexopoulos (b. 1977), etc. The modern Greek short form Γιώργος "Giorgos" is sometimes rendered "Yiorgos" or "Yorgos", as in Yiorgos Theotokas (1906–1966). Georgios Georgios (Γεώργιος ) is a Greek name derived from the word ("georgos", "farmer" lit. "earth-worker"). The word is a compound of ("ge", "earth", "soil") and ("ergon", "task",