Timi is built on the coastal plain of Paphos, at an average altitude of 60 metres. Its landscape is flat, with a slight incline towards the sea, and the altitude across its area does not exceed 100 metres.

From a geological point of view, the village’s administrative area is dominated by deposits of the Pachna formation (alternating layers of chalk, marls and sandstones), terrace alluvial deposits and recent alluvial deposits of the Holocene geological period. Calcareous soils, terra rossa, xerorendzinas and alluvial soils developed on these rocks.

Timi receives an average annual rainfall of around 430 millimetres. The area is planted with vineyards (both table and wine grape varieties), citrus fruits, pulses (mainly beans and, to a much lesser extent, chickpeas and broad beans), cereals, fodder crops, olives, avocados, bananas and pistachios. Various types of vegetables are also grown, including potatoes, peas, onions, carrots, tomatoes, watermelons, melons, artichokes, beetroot and other varieties.

Timi is among the villages that benefited from the Paphos irrigation scheme, with significant areas of land being irrigated from the Asprokremmos dam. Livestock farming is also fairly well developed.

In terms of transport links, Timi is connected to the northeast with the village of Anarita (about 2 km away) and to the south with the main Limassol-Paphos road, from which it is only about 500 metres away.

The village has experienced fluctuations in its population. According to the available data, the full population censuses are as follows:

After the Turkish invasion of 1974, the Turkish Cypriot residents of Timi were forced by their leadership to abandon the village and be relocated, together with all the other Turkish Cypriots of the free areas, to settle in the occupied areas. Their transfer took place in early 1975. Following the Turkish invasion of 1974, the village received a significant number of displaced Greek Cypriots. Self-housing settlements for the displaced were created in its area.

Historical information

The village existed during the Medieval period and is marked on old maps as Timi. De Mas Latrie provides the information that the village was a fief during the period of Frankish rule, when King James II the Bastard (1460-1473) granted it to the nobleman Peter d’Avila, to whom the village of Tala in the Paphos district probably also belonged.

Some scholars write the village name as Tymi (instead of Timi), considering that its name derived from ancient Dymi (as with the village of Dymes), possibly pointing to very ancient ties with the city of Dyme in Achaea (Peloponnese). In ancient sources we find references to settlers from Dyme in Achaea who came to Cyprus led by Cepheus. However, on official maps the village is written as Timi and its name is probably of hagiological origin.

The existence of an ancient settlement named Dymi has not been proven archaeologically. In any case, it is a fact that very close to the village lies an archaeological site of the Prehistoric period (provisionally dated to the Late Bronze Age). Moreover, the village’s area lies at a significant point between ancient Palaepaphos (so renowned and cosmopolitan due to its famous temple of Aphrodite) and ancient Paphos. Naturally the whole area must have belonged to the kingdom of Paphos and been fairly densely populated.

The village mosque was previously the Christian Byzantine church of Agia Sofia. It is believed to have once been entirely painted on the inside, but its frescoes were covered with plaster. The main church of the village, that of Agia Irini, is modern and of no particular interest. In the village area there is also a church dedicated to Saint Menas and another dedicated to Saint Mamas, as well as one more dedicated to Saint George.

The Turkish Cypriot residents of Timi called the village Ovalik, which can be translated as flatland or plain, something that matches the morphology of the area.

Education

According to I. K. Peristianis, educational activity in the village began in 1855, perhaps even earlier. The first teacher mentioned is Antonis Lazari, who taught ten or twelve pupils the “papadistika”, that is the basic letters, in his home. His remuneration was 9 piastres a month and Saturday bread. Lazaris taught for only one year and was succeeded until 1860 by a certain Hadjisolomos. He taught in his home, taking only one piastre a month from each pupil. Then Ioannis, a foreigner from Tarsus, taught for two years, taking 10 Turkish piastres and 2 Saturday breads as well as a meal once a week from the parents in rotation. From 1863 until 1874 Papakyprianos taught the basic letters, receiving only the Saturday gift as payment. No one else taught until the British occupation (1878).

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Its strategic position between ancient Paphos and Palaepaphos reinforces its importance as a point of historical interest.

Paphos Airport is included within its area.

In 2024, with the local government reform, it was incorporated into the Municipality of Geroskipou.