The first inhabitants were people who came to the area long before the 6th - 7th Century B.C. and this is quite clear from evidence from excavations made outside the the old village in 1938, where a temple of a goddess was found by archaeologists, this can be seen at the Cyprus museum in Nicosia. They lived in the area that is now called the "old village"

Shepherds used the river to graze their animals, and with time married girls from surrounding areas, resulting in the village growing.

The first houses were built and pens for animals were made further away in the forest. The first houses were built between the rivers and for this reason the first inhabitants called it Mesopotamia, which simply meant, a place between two rivers.