The community of Politiko lies about 20 kilometres SW of Nicosia, at an average altitude of 380 metres that increases to 830 meters in the south. It is built in the same ground where the ancient city of Tamasos stretched and it is considered as the settlement that succeeded it.
Tamasos is cited as a city and -indeed -with episcopal headquarters (see/diocese) in the first centuries AD. The most known bishop was Saint Eracleidios, in the name of which runs the celebrated convent today.
Exactly when Politiko replaced Tamasos cannot accurately be determined. Tamasos with its ancient name is mentioned as a bishop's seat until 1220, at a time when Neilos (Nile) of Tamasos was the bishop. The fact of the annulment of Tamasos's see around 1222 (Frank Domination era), because of the persecutions against the Orthodox Church by the Latin, is a significant turning point for the community's history. Tamasos is no longer mentioned as a city, thus we can assume that its history ends and the history of the village Politiko begins.
According to Voustronios, King Jacob II (1460-1473), wanting to live in peace, provided grants to foreign -Catalan and Spanish -and also Cypriot knights. Indeed, he mentions that 'he granted to Ficardo of Tamasos the villages Politiko and Pistachi, 150 measures of wine and 1000 "byzantia" (Byzantine coins)'. Another report can be found in the "Chronological History of the Island of Cyprus" by Archimandrite (Dean) Kyprianos, in which he clarifies that 'Tamasos, a midland city of the island in old times, is today called the village Politiko'.
The village, according to the Holy Archdiocese of Cyprus's records of taxpayers for 1820 and 1820, administratively belonged to the Kythrea region during the Frank and Turkish Domination eras. With the descent of the British the village went through a slow but steady increase of population. In 1821 its inhabitants were 140, increasing to 198 in 1911, and to 221 in 1921. In 1982 they reached 309, while today they come up to 350.
During WW II many inhabitants of Nicosia found refuge in Politiko. Furthermore, children from the orphanage of Nicosia were hosted in the village's elementary school.
Politiko did not remain indifferent when the 1955-1959 liberation struggle of EOKA started. We find all the inhabitants actively incorporated in the organisation's orders; guerrilla fighters, liaisons, local groups, contribution in whichever way.
There are many churches in the village. The first is dedicated to the local Saint Theodore "ton Tamasea" (of Tamasos); the second to Saint Eracleidios, Bishop of Tamasos, next to which the small church of St. John the Baptist was recently erected. A bit further down lies the ruined monastery of St. Mnason. At a small distance from the village stands the church of St. Marina, next to the Filani settlement. In a very beautiful area inside the "Agios Nicolaos of Engomi" camping site, which is hosted by Politiko, the church of the Saviour's Transfiguration has been erected.
Politiko also offers its hospitality to the Rehab Centre of the "Agia Skepi" Therapeutic Community, which is under the protection of the Machairas monastery.
The Elementary School of Politiko, which was established in 1926 with the contribution of emigrants from the community, the Co-op Credit Society that first started in 1914 but registered in 1961, and the Youth Centre, a cell of vividness that was founded in 1981, lend to the community a special note of life that will keep Politiko alive.