map of Cyprus showing the Louroujina Salient of the TRNC
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The Louroujina Salient marks the southernmost extent of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It is named for the Turkish Cypriot village of Louroujina (Lurucina). When the Turkish Military Intervention took place in 1974, this village was secured so as to place it within a contiguous Turkish Cypriot zone, which later became in 1975, the Turkish Federated State of North Cyprus, then in 1983, the TRNC. It is accessible only by one road from the rest of the TRNC. The UN Buffer Zone seperates the salient from the Greek Cypriot Republic of Cyprus. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) (in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti [KKTC]) is a de facto state, which controls the northern third of the island of Cyprus, in the eastern Mediterranean. ... The Cyprus Dispute refers to the dispute between Turkey, Greece, Britain and the United States, over Cyprus, an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. ... In military terms, a salient is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. ...
An attacker can produce a salient in the defender's line by either intentionally making a pincer movement around the flanks of a strong point, which becomes the tip of the salient, or by making a broad, frontal attack which is held up in the centre but advances on the flanks.
In trench warfare, salients are distinctly defined by the opposing lines of trenches and they were commonly formed by the failure of a broad, frontal attack.
The static nature of the trenches meant that forming a pocket was difficult but the vulnerable nature of salients meant that they were often the focus of attrition battles.
In World War I, the Germans occupied a small salient in front of Fromelles called the Sugar-loaf due to its distinctive shape.
In the Yugoslav wars the Medak Pocket was a Serb populated area in Croatia that was invaded by Croatians in September 1993.
The cease-fire line dividing Cyprus into Greek and Turkish controlled sectors put Louroujina in a salient - accessible from the rest of Turkish Cypriot-controlled Cyprus by a single road.
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