Liopetri is a village in southern Famagusta District

Famagusta District

Famagusta District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is the island's most important port, Famagusta. The city of Famagusta is currently controlled by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ....

, Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

. It is close to the communities of Frenaros, Sotira

Sotira, Famagusta

Sotira is village located in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, near the town of Famagusta. Sotira is a coastal village with a blue flag Ayia Thekla beach. Sotira is famous for its Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Christian Orthodox churches....

, Avgorou

Avgorou

Avgorou is a village in southwestern Famagusta District, Cyprus. It is located near the communities of Frenaros, Sotira, Liopetri and Ormidia....

 and Xylofagou

Xylofagou

Xylofagou is a sprawling Greek-Cypriot village situated close to the A3 Motorway between Dhekelia and Paralimni / Agia Napa. On the edge of an area of a group of several similar villages known as the Kokkinochoria known for growing vegetables, especially potatoes...

 (Larnaca District

Larnaca District

Larnaca District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is Larnaca. A small part of the district was occupied by the Turkish army in 1974....

).

On September 2, 1958 the Battle of Liopetri was fought here between the British and four EOKA

EOKA

EOKA was an anticolonial, antiimperialist nationalist organisation with the ultimate goal of "The liberation of Cyprus from the British yoke". Although not stated in its initial declaration of existence which was printed and distributed on the 1st of April 1955, EOKA also had a target of achieving...

 fighters, Fotis Pittas, Andreas Karios, Elias Papakyriakou and Christos Samaras, who were from Liopetri.

In 2001 the number of inhabitants was 3,837.