The community of Avdimou is located about 13 kilometres west of Episkopi. The altitude ascends from 20 meters in the south to 100 meters close to the community and reaches 300 meters in the north. The community receives an annual rainfall of about 450 millimetres; vines of the table-grape variety, cereals, legumes, vegetables, carob-trees, and citrus-trees are cultivated in the region. Stockbreeding is also developed.

The fact that it is close to the sea makes the climate wet in the summer and mild in the winter. Regarding transportation, Avdimou is connected with the new Limassol -- Pafos highway in the south, with Anogyra and Agios Thomas in the north-wet, and with Prastio and Pachna in the north. The community's south section is included in the territory of the British Sovereign Bases.

There are two interpretations regarding the village's name. The first reports that the Phoenician prince Abdemon took refuge there, after his expulsion by Evagoras I in 411 BC, giving his name to the settlement. The second and most probable interpretation reports that it took its name from the first settler, who was named Evdemos.

The village's history begins in the very ancient times. In the Lusignan era, Avdimou developed and was one of Cyprus's 12 districts. During the times of Venice's Domination Avdimou was a significant centre. Since that time it became one of the three precincts of the Limassol district and kept being a central point throughout the years of the Turkish and British domination.

Until 1963 the village had a mixed population with a small number of Greek inhabitants (905 Turkish-Cypriots, 10 Greek-Cypriots). After the inter-communal conflicts of 1963, all the Greek-Cypriot inhabitants abandoned the village and it becomes thoroughly Turkish-Cypriot. After the 1974 Turkish Invasion, the village's Turkish-Cypriot inhabitants transferred to the occupied territory of Cyprus and several Greek-Cypriot refugees -coming from 42 different villages of the occupied area -settled in the village. Many of the community's residences remain uninhabitable because of being unsuitable for such purposes. Also, the project for self-housing on Government-owned land operates in the area, being a very positive factor and an incentive for the settlement of new families in the region.

Despite the many financial difficulties that the inhabitants face due to their refugee status, Avdimou's community today can be considered as prosperous. Several inhabitants are employed in the British Sovereign bases, in various occupations in Limassol; the women are mostly employed in the various fruit-packaging or other factories in Limassol. At the same time, they maintain viable agricultural plots, which were converted to very productive plantations -mainly of Sultanina (Thompson's seedless) grapes -with the support of the government. Also, there are several stockbreeding units in the community.

In the community today there are 3 recreation centres, a Co-operative Credit Society, 3 general stores, 3 butcher's shops, 3 coffee-houses, a barbershop, and hairdresser's salons.

From an administrative point of view, Avdimou has an elected Community Council, a church committee, a refugee's committee, a committee of the Co-op Credit Society, a parents' association, a community welfare board, a youth centre, a hunting club, (political) party committees, a police station manned by 8 persons, a bracket of the headquarters' traffic police with 15 members, a permanent medical officer, and a veterinary unit with two vets and 5 assistants. The beach is made of fine, thin-grained sand with a few colourful pebbles. It is surrounded by many locust-bean storage areas that are in ruins, a small mosque, and some sketchy recreation centres. The two low capes at the edges protect the sandbank from the winds. The bay of Avdimou with its sandy beach offer a day of rest in the deep blue sea to the visitor.